22, ALBEMARLE STREET
22, ALBEMARLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376145
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 22, ALBEMARLE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 22, ALBEMARLE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376145
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 22, ALBEMARLE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 22, ALBEMARLE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 22, ALBEMARLE 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:
- TQ2898980641
Details
TQ2880NE
1900/69/10193
ALBEMARLE STREET
No. 22
GV
II
House, later shop and workshops. C18, refronted midC19, acquired in part in 1861 by Asprey's, and fully in 1926. Stucco rendered, the ground floor lined as ashlar, roof not visible. Four storeys, one treated as an attic, and basement, three bays. Ground floor 3-light shop window, probably 1920's, small paned lights under fanlights, panelled dado, under earlier dentil cornice. Entrance to left, probably of similar date, with pair of panelled doors in panelled reveals. Tall first floor windows under plain cornices. Cast iron balcony. Upper floor sashes with glazing bars in simple moulded architraves. Deep cornice with attic storey above with sashes with glazing bars. Interior: rooms largely opened up to provide shop floors, but cornices survive particularly at 1st floor level. Ground floor front marble fire surround with steel grate. Ionic screen fronts elliptical stairwell and stair with probably 1920's applied panelling and containing exuberant panelled lift with, at each floor, ornate metal screen, and said to have been installed in 1926. First floor rear windows flanked by tall Corinthian pilasters, modillion cornice to rear and former centre room. Some six-panel doors survive. Attached iron railings with gilded paterae, surmounted by small urns. Lodgings of Florence Nightingale and William Farr in 1857 whilst carrying out pioneering research on Crimean War statistics. Asprey of Bond Street, 1781-1981, Hillier, B., 1981
Listing NGR: TQ2898980641
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470137
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hillier, B, Asprey of Bond Street 1781 to 1981, (1981)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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