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26, Tredegar Square

A Grade II* Listed Building in Bow West, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5277 / 51°31'39"N

Longitude: -0.0323 / 0°1'56"W

OS Eastings: 536595

OS Northings: 182806

OS Grid: TQ365828

Mapcode National: GBR K3.GJT

Mapcode Global: VHGQV.DV9S

Plus Code: 9C3XGXH9+33

Entry Name: 26, Tredegar Square

Listing Date: 29 December 1950

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1242118

English Heritage Legacy ID: 441470

ID on this website: 101242118

Location: Festubert Place, Tower Hamlets, London, E3

County: London

District: Tower Hamlets

Electoral Ward/Division: Bow West

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Tower Hamlets

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: St Mary Bow and Holy Trinity

Church of England Diocese: London

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Description


The following entry shall be added:

TQ 3682
788-/11/261
29/12/50

TREDEGAR SQUARE
(north side)
No. 26

GV
II*

Terraced house. Completed in carcass 1827, interior fitted out in 1836-7. Forms part of an
important terrace with classical stucco treatment, arranged as three linked 3-storey ranges. No.
26 comprises one decorated end of the centrepiece, with Ionic columns in antis under deep
cornice, over rusticated ground floor; a two-storey link building with a round-headed window
between pilasters under a pediment; and the former no. 25 of two bays, that to the right slightly
projecting, and both with round-headed ground-floor windows and first floor architrave
surrounds.
This has always been the largest and grandest house in the terrace, but is remarkable for the
painted decoration in its first floor front room, which consists of a series of painted papers and
panels in the style made popular by J G Crace in the late 1830s but which are now
exceptionally rare, especially in so relatively ordinary a house. Ceiling with stencilled decoration.
Four wall panels flank the entrance and chimney breast opposite, and four the front and rear
windows; the panel above the chimney breast is painted in the same style. They are executed
in a variety of media on paper and board glued to the walls. The four larger panels have a green
border drawn into a shallow arch at the top. By this simple device the panels are given scale and
an almost architectonic quality. Inside this border there is a 'frame' picked out in gold stencil.
At the centre of each arched panel is a roundel depicting putti with various attributes. These
are executed in oil on paper which has been pasted down on top of the painted wall paper. The
roundels are set off by a pair of birds resting on delicate bars of ornament. Floral swags and
naturalistic foliage sit inside this frame. The motifs are various and include ivy branches, bamboo
leaves, acanthus leaves, ribbons, a goldfish bowl, a vase and a pair of birds. The roundels
represent the arts and sciences. The quality of execution is high throughout and in places
brilliant.

Listing NGR: TQ3659582806

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