Steps and Parapets with Lamps at W End London, England
Listed Building Data
Steps and Parapets with Lamps at W End 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1275191
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 1 December 1987
- Name
- STEPS AND PARAPETS WITH LAMPS AT WEST END
- Location
- STEPS AND PARAPETS WITH LAMPS AT WEST END, KING CHARLES STREET SW1
- District
- City of Westminster
- County
- Greater London Authority
- Grid Reference
- TQ 29940 79811
- Easting
- 529940.4480
- Northing
- 179810.5750
Description
Steps with flanking parapets surmounted by lamps terminating west end of street and leading down to St James's Park. c1873 part of Sir George Gilbert Scott's Foreign Office, Whitehall, q.v., but as they associate with the Park, composition may be by Mathew Digby Wyatt. Broad York stone flight of steps with landing, flanked by Portland stone parapets; the latter have highly ornate pierced scrollwork Italianate carving beneath the coping; dies surmounted by ornamental wrought iron lamps.
Listed Building Description
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TQ 2979 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER KING CHARLES STREET, SWL 91/5 Steps and parapets with lamps at west end G.V. II Steps with flanking parapets surmounted by lamps terminating west end of street and leading down to St James's Park. c1873 part of Sir George Gilbert Scott's Foreign Office, Whitehall, q.v., but as they associate with the Park, composition may be by Mathew Digby Wyatt. Broad York stone flight of steps with landing, flanked by Portland stone parapets; the latter have highly ornate pierced scrollwork Italianate carving beneath the coping; dies surmounted by ornamental wrought iron lamps.
Listing NGR: TQ2994379811
