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21, Upper Grosvenor Street W1

A Grade II Listed Building in City of Westminster, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5106 / 51°30'37"N

Longitude: -0.1558 / 0°9'21"W

OS Eastings: 528073

OS Northings: 180681

OS Grid: TQ280806

Mapcode National: GBR 9D.5P

Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.79ZC

Plus Code: 9C3XGR6V+6M

Entry Name: 21, Upper Grosvenor Street W1

Listing Date: 1 December 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1066191

English Heritage Legacy ID: 207336

ID on this website: 101066191

Location: Mayfair, Westminster, London, W1K

County: London

District: City of Westminster

Electoral Ward/Division: West End

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: City of Westminster

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: St George, Hanover Square

Church of England Diocese: London

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Description


TQ 2880 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER UPPER GROSVENOR 68/64 STREET, Wl No. 21 G.V. II Terraced town house. 1732, refronted and extensively refurbished 1908-9 by Ralph Knott and his partner E. Stone Collins. Portland stone, slate roof. An inventive refronting with slightly central European Baroque references. 4 storeys, clearly and changefully distinguished, with basement and dormered mansard. 3 windows wide, the front flanked by rusticated quoins. Channelled ground floor with elliptical arched doorway to right beneath porch formed by bowed projection of 1st floor balcony carved on a pair of Doric columns with dosserets. Plain ground floor plate glass casements. 1st floor French windows in architraves with large keystones rising into heavy segmental pediments, the shallow aprons of the 2nd floor windows rising from them in unified composition with bolection architraves having carved scrolled supports; effective blank zone thus left below high set vertical oeil-de-boeuf 2nd floor windows with keystones rising to main cornice which is carried on 4 carved consoles; parapet with coping; pedimented dormer. 1st floor balcony ironwork articulated by squat stone obelisk dies. Enriched wrought iron standards to area railings. Edwardian interior in neo Georgian and French taste with boiseries to L shaped drawing room. Rare domestic work by the architect of County Hall. Survey of London; Vol. XL.

Listing NGR: TQ2807380681

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