26, RUTLAND GATE
26, RUTLAND GATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390972
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 26, RUTLAND GATE
- Statutory Address:
- 26, RUTLAND GATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390972
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-2004
- List Entry Name:
- 26, RUTLAND GATE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 26, RUTLAND GATE
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:
- 26, RUTLAND GATE
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 27210 79530
Details
1900/0/10360 RUTLAND GATE 10-AUG-04 26
GV II House. 1846-7, by John Tombs, builder. Brick, painted white, stucco dressings. Four storeys, basement and attic. Tall in its proportions. Four-bay front with four-storey canted bay window. Entrance in Tuscan closed porch with balustraded roof attached to south side. First-floor front bombé cast-iron balcony, French windows. Second-floor segmental pediments. Cornice lost. Return elevations altered. Interiors have not been inspected, but the house is known to have been lavishly refitted in the 1960s and subsequently altered. In the 1920s and 1930s No. 26 Rutland Gate was the London residence of Lord Redesdale, father of the Mitford sisters, who occasionally used it for the London season. Included for group value as part of the original layout of Rutland Gate and as the sole surviving villa of the 1840s to remain freestanding. Sources: (ed.) John Greenacombe, Survey of London, xlv: Knightsbridge (London, 2000). Jessica Mitford, Hons and Rebels (1960).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 491662
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mitford, J, Hons and Rebels, (1960)
Survey of London in Survey of London: Volume 45 Knightsbridge, (2000)
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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