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Latitude: 51.5128 / 51°30'46"N
Longitude: -0.1707 / 0°10'14"W
OS Eastings: 527033
OS Northings: 180906
OS Grid: TQ270809
Mapcode National: GBR 5C.VW
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.072M
Plus Code: 9C3XGR7H+4P
Entry Name: 1-24, Hyde Park Gardens W2
Listing Date: 14 January 1970
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1231617
English Heritage Legacy ID: 406672
ID on this website: 101231617
Location: Paddington, Westminster, London, W2
County: London
District: City of Westminster
Electoral Ward/Division: Hyde Park
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: City of Westminster
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St John Evan Hyde Park Crescent
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Building
TQ 2680 NE and 2780 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER HYDE PARK GARDENS,
65/28 ; 66/8 W2
14.1.70 Nos. 1 to 24
(consec.)
G.V. II
Symmetrical terraces of town houses. 1836 by John Crake. Stucco
faced, slate roofs. Designed with entrance fronts to north but with
principal front to south on to private residents landscaped garden and
overlooking Hyde Park. 2 adjoining ranges. 4 storeys, basements and
dormered mansards. 3 window wide fronts. North entrance fronts
mostly have full height projecting entrance bays with engaged Greek
Doric porches. Architraved sash windows, some retaining glazing bars.
Plat bands and entablatures over 3rd floors, parapets with coping.
Cast iron area railings. South front to Park has slightly advanced
end pairs and central 3 houses of each range, with rusticated quoins.
Architraved windows with cornices on ground, 1st and 2nd floors, those
to end and central houses with pediments. Plat bands and entablature
over 3rd floor. Link houses have balustraded parapets. Central houses
to each range have tent roofed verandah-balconies to 1st floor. Steps
with geometric patterned cast iron railings giving access to private
garden. Roofscape rhythm provided by party wall mounted, stucco,
corniced chimney stacks. Part of the Tyburnia development planned by
S.P. Cockerell in 1827 for the Bishop of London's Estate (Church
Commissioners), but laid out to modified plan by Cockerell's successor G Gutch.
'The History of Tyburnia', G Toplis; Country Life 15, 22 Nov 1973.
Listing NGR: TQ2703380906
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