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Latitude: 51.5 / 51°29'59"N
Longitude: -0.1836 / 0°11'1"W
OS Eastings: 526175
OS Northings: 179459
OS Grid: TQ261794
Mapcode National: GBR 2J.ZG
Mapcode Global: VHGQY.RKSG
Plus Code: 9C3XFRX8+XH
Entry Name: 10, Palace Gate SW7
Listing Date: 9 March 1982
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1357457
English Heritage Legacy ID: 422486
ID on this website: 101357457
Location: Knightsbridge, Kensington and Chelsea, London, W8
County: London
District: Kensington and Chelsea
Electoral Ward/Division: Queen's Gate
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Kensington and Chelsea
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Mary Abbots with Christ Church and St Philip Kensington
Church of England Diocese: London
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TQ 2679 SW
38/18
9.3.82
PALACE GATE SW7
(east side)
No. 10
II*
Block of flats. 1937 by Wells Coates. Reinforced concrete, using an innovative system of frame
and monolithic reinforcement by Samuely and Hamaan, engineers, clad in concrete panels. A
symmetrical composition with a projecting, slightly concave, entrance block of seven storeys,
those above ground floor each with a two-room flat, three windows wide; larger rear block
connected by fully-glazed stairwell and containing eight storeys of flats, the central ones (four
per floor) arranged on a remarkable 3-2 plan with three bedrooms equalling the height of two
living rooms, accessed by a corridor and hallway on the second and fifth floors. Penthouse on
flat roof This so-called '3-2' or 'scissor' plan is particularly evident on the rear elevation, as is
Coates's special feature of alternating pairs of living rooms with bedrooms. Entrance canopy
altered. All windows metal casements. One of the most innovative blocks of flats built in
Britain in the 1930s, by one of the leading modern architects of the time. It marks the
culmination of Wells Coates' ideas on the planning of flats, with his first 3-2 block, and shows
technical advances in construction and the use of cladding materials.
Sources:
Architectural Review, vol. LXXXV, 1939, pp.173-84
Sherban Cantacuzino, Wells Coates, 1978
Listing NGR: TQ2617879456
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