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Latitude: 51.5089 / 51°30'32"N
Longitude: -0.1229 / 0°7'22"W
OS Eastings: 530367
OS Northings: 180556
OS Grid: TQ303805
Mapcode National: GBR JF.L8
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.TBFM
Plus Code: 9C3XGV5G+HV
Entry Name: 1 and 2, Robert Street
Listing Date: 24 February 1958
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1235244
English Heritage Legacy ID: 425759
ID on this website: 101235244
Location: London, Westminster, London, WC2N
County: London
District: City of Westminster
Electoral Ward/Division: St James's
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: City of Westminster
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Paul Covent Garden
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Building
TQ 3080 NW
72/131
CITY OF WESTMINSTER
ROBERT STREET, WC2
Nos. 1 and 2
24.2.58
GV
II*
Terraced chambers. 1768-74 by Robert Adam assisted by his brother James and with the youngest brother William, part of their innovatory Adelphi development. Stock brick with C19 stucco facing the ground floor, slate roof. One of the first houses in London to be purpose built as letting flats or chambers.
Ashlar facade of three storeys and attic storey with basements and dormered mansard. Five and six windows wide respectively with four-window return to John Street. Central and off centre doorways in channelled stucco ground floor; No.1 with early C19 doorcase of pilasters with patterae caps flanking swagged garland frieze below projecting cornice; No. 2 with six-panel door and rectangular fanlight set in original eared architrave case with husk-garland in frieze and moulded cornice. Recessed glazing bar sashes under flat brick arches to upper floors.Moulded patent stone string course over second floor and parapet with coping. Wrought iron area railings.
Interiors altered for office use but No.1 in particular retains a number of its original shallow moulded plasterwork ceilings with medallions, fewer intact in No. 2, and some carved wood chimney pieces etc.
Survey of London; Vol. XVIII.
Georgian London; John Summerson.
Listing NGR: TQ3036780558
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