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Latitude: 51.5221 / 51°31'19"N
Longitude: -0.1466 / 0°8'47"W
OS Eastings: 528679
OS Northings: 181979
OS Grid: TQ286819
Mapcode National: GBR C8.7K
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.D0VH
Plus Code: 9C3XGVC3+R8
Entry Name: 12, Devonshire Street W1
Listing Date: 1 December 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1290403
English Heritage Legacy ID: 209490
ID on this website: 101290403
Location: Marylebone, Westminster, London, W1G
County: London
District: City of Westminster
Electoral Ward/Division: Marylebone High Street
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: City of Westminster
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Marylebone
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Building
TQ 2881 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER DEVONSHIRE STREET, W1
45/3 (north side)
No. 12
G.V. II
Town house. 1912-14 by Sydney Tatchell. Portland stone, slate roof.
strongly modelled "Dixhuitieme" French pavilion design. 2 main storeys
and dormered mansard, on basement. 3 windows wide and set back entrance
bay to right. Bolection moulded doorway is garland-lined with mask
keystone, the elliptical fanlight above framed in architrave also with
keystone. The tall ground floor windows, with recessed glazing bar
casements and balustrading below sills, are set between prominent,
panelled piers crowned with festoon-enriched vases at 1st floor level;
cornice moulding over window heads, surmounted by panels and
fret-ornamented bands finished off with low cast iron ornamental guards
serving the 1st floor recessed casements. The 1st floor window over the
doorway has similar iron guard and its corbelled sill is swagged. Dentil
crowning cornice and balustraded parapet (solid over entrance bay) with
panelled dies capped by stone vases. Corniced dormers. Cast iron area
railings with Vitruvian scroll ornament running between stone piers. Part
of an early C.20 attempt by the Portland Estate to restore the domestic
character of this area which had become too professional.
Listing NGR: TQ2867981979
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