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140, PICCADILLY W1 (See details for further address information)

A Grade II Listed Building in City of Westminster, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5038 / 51°30'13"N

Longitude: -0.1497 / 0°8'58"W

OS Eastings: 528521

OS Northings: 179941

OS Grid: TQ285799

Mapcode National: GBR BH.K3

Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.CG7J

Plus Code: 9C3XGV32+G4

Entry Name: 140, PICCADILLY W1 (See details for further address information)

Listing Date: 2 July 1969

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1265672

English Heritage Legacy ID: 424298

ID on this website: 101265672

Location: Hyde Park Corner, Westminster, London, W1J

County: London

District: City of Westminster

Electoral Ward/Division: West End

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: City of Westminster

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: St George, Hanover Square

Church of England Diocese: London

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Description


TQ 2879 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PICCADILLY, W1
89/8 (north side)
2.7.69 No 140 (including No 11
Hamilton Place)
G.V. II
End of terrace town mansion. c1870. Portland stone, slate roof. Eclectic
Italianate and French Renaissance features with considerable use of ornamental
detail. 4 storeys, basement and dormered mansard. 3 windows wide with canted
corner and 7-window return with entrance to Hamilton Place. Recessed plate
glass sashes with central 3-light pilastered bow through ground and 1st floors,
those on 1st floor archivolt arched with panelled pilasters and carved spandrel
panels; plainer sashes to 2nd and 3rd floors with tripartite group to centre.
String courses and 1st floor stone balcony with ornamented iron balustrade;
enriched bracketed main cornice and crowning balustrade broken by scroll
supported elaborate stone dormers. Return to Hamilton Place has broad central
3-window canted bay flanked by 2-storey canted bays with entrance in right hand
one under Doric portico-porch with pink granite columns, windows and archivolt
arched 1st and 2nd floor windows. Canted chimnney breast bay, next to corner,
panelled up to cornice. 3-window wide break to left hand with quoins. Heavy
cast iron area railings.


Listing NGR: TQ2852179941

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