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41, Chelsea Square SW3

A Grade II Listed Building in Stanley, London

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Latitude: 51.4881 / 51°29'17"N

Longitude: -0.1737 / 0°10'25"W

OS Eastings: 526899

OS Northings: 178154

OS Grid: TQ268781

Mapcode National: GBR 5N.6Q

Mapcode Global: VHGQY.YV1L

Plus Code: 9C3XFRQG+6G

Entry Name: 41, Chelsea Square SW3

Listing Date: 6 July 1981

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1189675

English Heritage Legacy ID: 203639

ID on this website: 101189675

Location: Chelsea, Kensington and Chelsea, London, SW3

County: London

District: Kensington and Chelsea

Electoral Ward/Division: Stanley

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Kensington and Chelsea

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: St Luke and Christ Church Chelsea

Church of England Diocese: London

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Description


TQ 2678 SE CHELSEA SQUARE, SW3

249/55/34 No. 41

GV 6/7/81 II

Private house. 1934, by Oliver Hill Freda, Lady Forbes. White-painted stucco house, neo-Georgian in style, square in plan with cruciform upper storey. Two storeys and semi-basement. Low-pitched tiled roofs with pedimented gables and 2 tall chimney stacks. Flight of steps, with decorative fretwork railing and lamp standard up to central entrance with bracketed cornice-hood. Sash windows with glazing bars: segmental-headed to semi-basement, square-headed to upper storey. Symmetry of main facade broken by variety of window-shapes and types to ground floor: segmental-headed with shutters, square-headed and round. Main facade to south (garden) side, with oval oculus in gable, echoing the pediment of No 40, with which this house forms a picturesque ensemble. Main facade to south side.

Interior retains original staircase hall with deep coved ceiling. Open-well staircase rises up five steps, then turns through ninety degrees and rises to projecting, curved landing. Each step treated as a separate horizontal motif to side, with wide-spaced twisted balusters. Stair to basement retains the original fretwork balustrading but is reversed. Entrance hall leads to dining room, designed to house Lady Forbes's Aubusson tapestries and with jib door and early-C18-style fireplace. The entrance hall and living room remodelled with paired dentiled cornices by Sir Nigel Boakes, who added a charming double-height garden room in neo-Gothick style, designed by Chapman Taylor c.1980. On the first floor the principal bedroom retains its original high cove which incorporates the gable oculus.

Source: Country Life, 16 February 1935, pp.168-172.

Listing NGR: TQ2689978154

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