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24-26, Montagu Square W1

A Grade II Listed Building in City of Westminster, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5186 / 51°31'6"N

Longitude: -0.1592 / 0°9'33"W

OS Eastings: 527816

OS Northings: 181571

OS Grid: TQ278815

Mapcode National: GBR 89.FS

Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.6355

Plus Code: 9C3XGR9R+C8

Entry Name: 24-26, Montagu Square W1

Listing Date: 1 December 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1267407

English Heritage Legacy ID: 418812

ID on this website: 101267407

Location: Marylebone, Westminster, London, W1H

County: London

District: City of Westminster

Electoral Ward/Division: Bryanston and Dorset Square

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: City of Westminster

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: St Mary Bryanston Square

Church of England Diocese: London

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Description


TQ 2781 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER MONTAGU SQUARE, W1 43/94 (East side)

Nos. 24 to 26 (consec.)

G.V. II

Terraced town houses. c.1810-11 (with some mid C.19, and in the case of No. 24 early C.20, alterations), by J.T. Parkinson as part of his Montagu-Bryanston Square development for the Portman Estate. Stock brick with channelled stucco ground floor; slate roofs concealed except for No. 25. Five storeys, No. 25 with dormered mansard, on basements: 3-window wide fronts. Semicircular arched doorways and fanlights. 2-window segmental bows (3-window bow to No. 24) to ground floors; above them, on Nos. 25 and 26, rise mid C.19 2-storey canted stucco bays finished off with cornices and balustrade (No. 25) or blocking course (No. 26); No. 24 has early C.20 brown stone, 2 storeyed canted bay with Ionic columns on 1st floor and balustrade above 2nd floor; otherwise recessed sashes under flat gauged arches. Plat band finishing off ground floor stuccowork. Crowning stucco cornice and blocking course. Continuous, cast iron, lattice patterned balconies to 1st floor. Cast iron area railings with acorn finials. No. 24 has c.1905 interior by Romaine-Walker in elegant and accomplished Louis XVI and Adam revival styles, contemporary with the stone bay on 1st and 2nd floors.

Listing NGR: TQ2781681571

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