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The Sanctuary

A Grade II Listed Building in City of Westminster, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4992 / 51°29'57"N

Longitude: -0.1292 / 0°7'45"W

OS Eastings: 529954

OS Northings: 179468

OS Grid: TQ299794

Mapcode National: GBR HJ.4R

Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.QL11

Plus Code: 9C3XFVXC+M8

Entry Name: The Sanctuary

Listing Date: 9 January 1970

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1291358

English Heritage Legacy ID: 208827

Also known as: The Sanctuary, London
1-8, The Sanctuary

ID on this website: 101291358

Location: Westminster, London, SW1P

County: London

District: City of Westminster

Electoral Ward/Division: St James's

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: City of Westminster

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: St Matthew Westminster

Church of England Diocese: London

Tagged with: Architectural structure Terrace of houses

Description


TQ 2979 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER BROAD SANCTUARY, SW1 100/5 9.1.70 The Sanctuary Nos 1 to 8 (consec)

G.V. II

Terrace of houses incorporating gateway to Dean's Yard. 1853-54 by Sir George Gilbert Scott. Bath stone with gault brick and stone to Dean's Yard, slate roofs. Gothic with some early Tudor features, a carefully asymmetrical composition about the formal gatehouse with lively and varied skyline. 4 storeys, basements and dormered attics. 2 or 3 window wide fronts. Octagonal turreted and battlemented gatehouse. Houses have, pointed and 4 centred-arched doorways paired or set to right, some as recessed porches. 4 centred and square headed windows stone mullioned, some with tracery, rectangular through-storey bay windows and oriels; traceried balconies, buttresses, stepped gables and battlements. Decorative iron gates to vaulted carriageway. Ornate Gothic area railings. The rear to Dean's Yard plainer with stone mullioned windows and rectangular oriel-bays. Single storey rear extension to Nos. 2 and 3. Fine Gothic ironwork to areas on this front with the party boundary walls of Nos. 4 and 5 surmounted by ornate Gothic lamps, flanking gatehouse approach.

London Vol I; N Pevsner

Listing NGR: TQ2996479456

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