Description

GREAT BEDFORD STREET
(East side)

No.12 and attached railings (Formerly
Listed as: GREAT BEDFORD STREET Nos.12
AND 13)
12/06/50

GV II

Terrace house, now flats. c1790-1793 with C19 and C20 alterations. By John Palmer.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to front, rubble to basement and rear. Double-pile roof, rebuilt as full third floor to front, covering not visible to front, Welsh slate mansard to rear, coped party walls to left and right with two ashlar stacks to right with some early clay pots shared with No. 14 Great Bedford Street (qv). Ashlar axial stack rising from rear wall.
EXTERIOR: Four storeys and basement, three-window range. First floor has three plate glass horned sashes in splayed reveals. Second floor has three similar windows with stone sills; third floor has three similar windows in plain reveals with stone sills with window guard to centre. Ground floor has two plate glass horned sashes in splayed reveals with stone sills to right, to left six-panel door with flush, fielded and glazed panels in pedimented Doric doorcase. Pennant paved crossover flush with pavement has wrought iron footscraper. Basement has two six/six sashes in plain reveals with continuous stone sill. Plank door in ashlar infilling under crossover, C20 area steps. Band course over ground floor, sill band to first floor, frieze and moulded cornice over second floor, eaves cornice and coped parapet. Rear elevation partially visible. Two single dormers with C19 casement windows; two/two sash to second floor.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached wrought iron railings and gate with cast arrowheads on limestone bases. Part of incomplete St James's Square development on land leased by Fielder, King, Hewlett and Broom from Sir Peter Rivers Gay 25 March 1790; Great Bedford Street forms one of the four diagonal approaches to St James's; it was intended to continue to NE but never completed. Nos. 7-11 were destroyed by bombing in 1942. SOURCES: (Abstract of title of Sir J F Rivers ... to property sold 1856: DEED PKT 2379 & MAPS; Harcourt Masters' maps 1794 and 1808; City Engineer's Survey of Air Raid Damage 1942).

Listing NGR: ST7453465672

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q66480504

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings