22, WEYMOUTH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393317
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-2009
List Entry Name:: 22, WEYMOUTH STREET
Statutory Address:: 22, WEYMOUTH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393317
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-2009
List Entry Name:: 22, WEYMOUTH STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 22, WEYMOUTH 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:: 22, WEYMOUTH 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 28704 81853

Reasons for Designation

22 Weymouth Street has been designated for the following principal reasons:

* Of special architectural interest as one of a very small and distinguished portfolio of private houses by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, a major figure in C20 architecture; * It demonstrates par excellence the architect's personal manner of combining modernist form with traditional detail, and is virtually intact externally; * The high-quality brickwork, the hallmark of Scott's work, with subtle detailing demonstrates his advocacy of 'contrast between plain surfaces and sparse well-placed ornament just where it is needed and nowhere else'; * The interior complements this restrained classical aesthetic, and retains a significant proportion of its original plan and features on the principal floor.

Details

1900/1/10438 WEYMOUTH STREET 05-JUN-09 (North side) 22

II House. 1934. Designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in conjunction with his brother Adrian Gilbert Scott, built by Bovis Ltd (date stone on front elevation).

MATERIALS: Ground floor constructed in reinforced concrete; upper floors of timber joists. Faced in red and plum hand-made bricks laid in variant of English garden wall bond; stone dressings; pantile roof.

PLAN: Rectangular plan, comprising central entrance hall with drawing room to right (E) and former library and dining room to left. Main stair to rear of hall. Stair to basement in SW corner of hall is modern insertion.

EXTERIOR: Restrained classical style with neo-Grec detail. Two storeys. Symmetrical front (S) elevation of 6 bays (2-3-2) to ground floor with central section breaking forward, with the central entrance bay again slightly set forward; this has a recessed porch with stone steps; flanked by windows. Entrance has reeded architrave. The central portion of the first floor breaks forward only slightly, and comprises a loggia, with two windows behind; this is flanked by two windows on each side. Soldier course bands continuing across window heads. Stacks with stepped-back parapets. Georgian-style timber sash windows; those to outer four ground-floor bays and recessed balcony tripartite. Entrance steps flanked by stone planters. Hipped roof to front and sides conceals flat-roof terrace to rear.

Rear elevation in Devonshire Close is visible for only part of building's width. Recessed porch to left with 2 sash windows, those to ground floor tripartite. Soldier course banded detailing similar to front elevation.

INTERIOR: Hall has stone floor; shallow architraves and skirtings in artificial 'San Stefano' stone. Doors are 3-panelled in an archaic Greek manner. Drawing room has timber pilastered architrave to double doors. The hall and ground floor rooms have shallow-stepped moulded cornices, with reeded banding beneath in the hall, but some cornices appear to have been further embellished at a later stage. There are several late-C18 marble neo-classical chimneypieces which were installed when the house was built. Two curved steps lead up to the main stair, which has solid lower balustrade with wrought-iron scrolled upper balustrade; handrail replaced. Skylight above. The first floor rooms and basement are more altered but retain some cornices and panelled doors.

HISTORY: The house was built in 1934 to the design of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in conjunction with his younger brother Adrian Gilbert Scott. Giles Gilbert Scott (1880-1960) was one of the most important of C20 British architects; his many celebrated commissions include the Anglican cathedral of Liverpool and Battersea Power Station, as well as the K6 telephone kiosk. Scott designed relatively few private houses: Greystones, Hendon (1907, in conjunction with Adrian); Grey Wings, Leatherhead (1913); Chester House, Marylebone, his own residence (1925-6), all Grade II, and 22 Weymouth Street.

SOURCES: Architect & Building News, 30 November 1934

REASON FOR DESIGNATION: 22 Weymouth Street is designated for the following principal reasons:

* Of special architectural interest as one of a very small and distinguished portfolio of private houses by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, a major figure in C20 architecture, designed in conjuntion with his brother Adrian Gilbert Scott. It demonstrates par excellence the architect's personal manner of combining modernist form with traditional detail, and is virtually intact externally. The high-quality brickwork, the hallmark of Scott's work, with subtle detailing demonstrate his advocacy of 'contrast between plain surfaces and sparse well-placed ornament just where it is needed and nowhere else'.

* The interior complements this restrained classical aesthetic, and retains a significant proportion of its original plan and fittings on the principal floor.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 506120
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Architect and Building News' in 30 November, (1934)

Legal

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