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17 GERALD ROAD (INCLUDING 1 BURTON MEWS)

1, BURTON MEWS, SW1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385697
Date first listed:: 05-Oct-1998
List Entry Name:: 17 GERALD ROAD (INCLUDING 1 BURTON MEWS)
Statutory Address:: 1, BURTON MEWS, SW1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1385697
Date first listed:: 05-Oct-1998
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Jan-1999
List Entry Name:: 17 GERALD ROAD (INCLUDING 1 BURTON MEWS)
Statutory Address 1:: 1, BURTON MEWS, SW1
Statutory Address 2:: 17, GERALD ROAD, SW1

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:: 1, BURTON MEWS, SW1
Statutory Address:: 17, GERALD ROAD, SW1

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 28427 78741

Details

TQ 2878 NW 1900/102/10210

GERALD ROAD, SW1 (South-East side), Belgravia No. 17 (including 1 Burton Mews)

(Formerly listed as Nos. 17 (including 1 Burton Mews) And 17A)

GV II

Former coach house and hayloft, concealed behind Nos.13 and 15 Gerald Road. Late C19, converted into flats early C20. No. 17a is not of special interest. No. 17 much remodelled in 1930-56 when occupied by Sir Noel Coward. Stock brick with red brick dressings, painted at ground floor level; slate roofs. Small paned windows with opening casements under gauged brick heads. The ground floor has an elaborate early C20 doorcase in Queen Anne style which has been inserted and some elaborate ironwork over the entrance and to adjoining window with the initials JT. There is a large early C20 casement to the left side elevation and mid-C20 French windows to one side. Interior of No. 17. A well staircase embellished with finials of carved wooden urns with fruit decoration leads via a corridor with panelled walls and ceiling to the first floor former hayloft which Coward converted into a room with stage at one end, which is said to have had dining alcove below and sleeping arrangements above. The original four wooden bays of the hayloft with iron ties remain but some more elaborate wrought ironwork has been added. There is a bolection-moulded fireplace and two elaborate pairs of double doors. At gallery level there is a purpose-built corner desk with built-in bookcases which overlooks the rest of the hayloft. Separate rooms at first-floor level are his former library which has a bolection-moulded fireplace. A further bedroom has a bolection-moulded fireplace and early C18 style panelling. A guest bedroom has a low flight of steps and oak handrail to bathroom. This was the principal residence of Noel Coward from 1930 until 1956, the most important years of his fame and where he wrote his most popular works. Coward came to prominence in 1924 with `The Vortex', a controversial play about drug addiction, but it was his nine-year collaboration with C B Cochran (from 1925) which established his ascendency in the world of musical comedy and revue. `Private Lives' in 1930 was followed by `Cavalcade' in 1931 and `Design for Living' in 1932, and a string of hits continued with only a brief pause in the early war years. `Blithe Spirit' in 1941 and `In Which We Serve' in 1942 further established his position as the leading popular playwright and songsmith of his generation, his work encapsulating the fine manners and social mores of upper-class England through these years. In the post-war era his personal performances became so successful that in 1956 he left England for tax exile in Bermuda, Switzerland and Jamaica. No. 17 Gerald Road, with its early Georgian fixtures and touches of frivolity, and in particular with its built-in stage and writing desk, perfectly captures the blend of style, wit and tradition that was the key to his success. It is his very personal signature on the building in which he lived for his crucial middle years that make it of special historical interest for listing.

Listing NGR: TQ2842778741

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Legacy System number:: 471102
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.