Abbey (Canons') Garden London, England
Listed Building Data
Abbey (Canons') Garden has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1219484
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 1 December 1987
- Name
- ABBEY (CANONS') GARDEN
- Location
- ABBEY (CANONS') GARDEN, 1, BROAD SANCTUARY SW1ABBEY (CANONS') GARDEN, GREAT COLLEGE STREET
- District
- City of Westminster
- County
- Greater London Authority
- Grid Reference
- TQ 30132 79308
- Easting
- 530132.0000
- Northing
- 179308.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
TO 3079 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER BROAD SANCTUARY, SW1 101/23 (ABBEY PRECINCT AND WESTMINSTER SCHOOL)
Abbey (Canons') Garden: No 1 G.V. II
Former canon's house now offices. 1882 by J.L. Pearson. Red brick with plenty of stone dressings, slate roofs. Restrained Tudor-Gothic style with simple and effective flush setting of stone dressings with brickwork. 2 storeys and basement with attics in gabled roofs. 3 window wide north and south fronts, the main and more elaborated one facing north into garden with the outer window bays advanced and gabled. Central 4-centred arched doorway with moulded jambs and drip mould. Stone mullioned and transomed iron framed casements with cusped arches under squared heads, carried across full width of advanced gabled bays with stone dressings run up the angles; weathered sill courses and flush stone bands, stone coped gables. External chimney stacks to flanks and twin chimney stacks to centre ridge linked by stone bridge-capping with blank tracery. Plainer but similar rear south elevation behind Precinct wall overlooking Great College Street.
J.L. Pearson; Anthony Quiney.
Listing NGR: TQ3013279308
