7-11, ROBERT ADAM STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1360823
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-2002
List Entry Name:: 7-11, ROBERT ADAM STREET
Statutory Address:: 7-11, ROBERT ADAM STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1360823
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-2002
List Entry Name:: 7-11, ROBERT ADAM STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 7-11, ROBERT ADAM STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 7-11, ROBERT ADAM STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: City of Westminster (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 28170 81411

Details

1900/0/10301 ROBERT ADAM STREET 08-JUL-02 7-11

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7 - 11 Robert Adam Street. Five terrace houses on the Portman Estate, c.1780. Stock brick fronts, ground floors to Nos.8-11 rendered; York Stone cills and coping; slate roofs. EXTERIORS: Nos.7-9 each three windows wide: No.7 with door to right, others with central doors; Nos.10-11 each of two bays with doors to left. Sash windows mainly replaced with plate glass. Front areas with cast iron railings. No.7: aedicular surrounds to ground and first floor windows, fanlight over front door. Depressed arch of moulded stone springing from imposts at second floor level. Upper part of front formerly with pediment containing roundel of lion: dismantled in 1950s when parapet lowered to present level, and westerly neighbour demolished necessitating rebuilding of flank wall. No.8: arched door opening to centre; Regency 'Cottingham' cast iron balconies to first floor windows. No.9: Queen Anne Revival door hood with carved wooden brackets. No.10: arched door surround with rusticated quoins, probably of Coade stone. No.11: arched door surround. Rear elevations to Baker's Mews are very varied: No.7: late Georgian/early Victorian outbuilding to rear. No.8: early C20 mews building over garages, now 15 Baker's Mews and not included in list description. No.9: tall late Victorian/Edwardian three storey building with stone mullion and transom windows to first floor, Venetian window to second floor incorporating stained glass panels, said to be a former chapel. Nos.10-11: late Georgian mews buildings with garage opening to No.10. INTERIORS: not inspected, but a survey of 2001 reports the survival of numerous features, of which the following are a selection: No.7: largely unaltered. Adamesque chimneypiece in ground floor front room with slips of Brocatello marble and a frieze embellished with husk rinceaux; elaborate plasterwork to walls with classical figures, urns, sphinxes, garlands and paterae; cupboards, dado and skirting. Panelled Ground floor rear room with chimneypiece flanked with fluted pilasters; panelled door, skirting, dado, plaster cornice. Panelled partitions, open-string staircase with square rails, decorated tread-ends. Some fireplaces on upper floors. No.8: not surveyed; recently adapted for office use. No.9: retains staircase, some plasterwork, panelling and fireplaces. No.10: retains staircase and joinery on upper floors. No.11: retains staircase, otherwise altered. HISTORY: these houses are all that remain from the former Adam Street (which became Robert Adam Street in 1938; the architect had nothing to do with this development). They stand on part of the Portman Estate which was laid out in the late 1770S: the street is first listed in the rate books in 1780 and is first shown on an estate plan of that date but it was not marked on a plan of 1777. The row originally extended further west but this party was demolished in c.1950 when the north entrance to Baker's Mews was cut through.

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Legacy System number:: 489584
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.