Description

TO 3079 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER BROAD SANCTUARY, SW1
101/18 (ABBEY PRECINCT AND
WESTMINSTER SCHOOL)
24.2.58
Little Dean's Yard:
Nos 2 and 3

G.V. - I

House of the Master of the King's Scholars. No. 2 built and No. 3
remodelled 1789-90 by R.W.F. Brettingham as a symmetrical composition
originally including the rebuilt No. 1. Yellow stock brick with stucco
basement, No. 2 with slate roof. No. 3 tiled. Neoclassical astylar front.
3 storeys, basement and dormered mansards. Each house 3 windows wide with
No. 2 as original centrepiece of composition pedimented. Central entrances
approached at right angles by arched steps, doorways square headed and
architraved flanked by pilasters carrying bracketed cornice-hoods, panelled
doors and patterned fanlights. Recessed glazing bar sashes under flat
gauged arches, the outer windows tripartite. Stone modillion cornice and
parapet, the pediment over No. 2 containing lunette window. Bracketed lamp
of Nico type over No. 2.

Westminster School; L.E. Tanner.
R.C.H.M.

Listing NGR: TQ3005979355

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17526993

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Recommended Books

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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas