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1-24, Hyde Park Gardens W2

A Grade II Listed Building in City of Westminster, London

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Coordinates

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

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Description


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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