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ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY

ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, 1, KENSINGTON GORE SW7

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1217774
Date first listed:: 14-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:: ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
Statutory Address:: ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, 1, KENSINGTON GORE SW7

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1217774
Date first listed:: 14-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:: ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
Statutory Address 1:: ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, 1, KENSINGTON GORE SW7

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, 1, KENSINGTON GORE SW7

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: City of Westminster (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 26759 79634

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 01/10/2012

TQ 2679 NE 85/20 14.1.70

CITY OF WESTMINSTER KENSINGTON GORE, SW7 No 1 (Royal Geographical Society).

GV II*

Mansion, now headquarters of learned society. 1874-5, by Richard Norman Shaw for William and Alice Lowther; extension of 1928-30 by G. L. Kennedy and F. B. Nightingale for Royal Geographical Society. Red brick with gauged and rubbed brick dressings; gabled and hipped plain tile roofs; tall fluted brick stacks. Complex half-H plan with porch to right of central hall and former stable range projecting from wing to left. Queen Anne style. Complex facade of 2 storeys and attic, with 3 main bays to centre flanked by wings with hipped roofs. Segmental arches and second-floor flat arches over cross windows with leaded lights. Two pedimented bays to centre, breaking through coved cornice; wing to right has semi-circular arched doorway, and first-floor balcony with rendered coving from which tall pedimented dormer breaks through coved cornice of hipped roof; wing to left dominated by tall stacks breaking through cover cornice of hipped roof. Whole composition is also articulated by string courses broken by pilasters, mostly to dormer and bay windows. Similar but simpler 2-storey wing to left including former stables to far left with pedi- mented dormer windows and blind oculi. Rear and side elevations in similar style, with tall pedimented dormers surmounting canted bay windows and lateral stack to recessed bay of rear elevation. Extension of 1928-30 to left, has one-storey main elevations with tripartite window to canted return and statues of Shackleton by S. Sergeant Jagger (c.1932) and Dr Livingstone by T. B. Huxley- Jones (c.1953) set in classical stone niches. Interior: fine Queen Anne interiors with moulded cornices, classical fireplaces and panelled doors set in eared and pedimented architraves. Principal rooms include Hall with panelled dado, walnut-beamed ceiling and bolection-panelled overmantle over classical fireplace with tiles painted with coats of arms of Lowther family by Alice Lowther; large semi-circular archway to stair-hall to right with panelled dado and fine turned-baluster staircase rising above small former Flower Room; Map Room, former Drawing Room to rear of hall has decorative plaster frieze and coffered ceiling with decorative plaster spandrels. 1928- 30 extension has large lecture room and Soanian-style ambulatory. Lowther Lodge was one of the earliest and most influential works in the Queen Anne style, being hailed as an 'artistic landmark' in the Building News of 1875. (M. Girovard, Sweetness and Light, 1977; A. Saint, Richard Norman Shaw, 1976; Survey of London, Vol.38.

Listing NGR: TQ2675979634

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 412995
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Girouard, M, Sweetness And Light, the Queen Anne Movement 1860 -1900, (1977 )
Saint, A, Richard Norman Shaw, (1976)
'Survey of London' in Survey of London - Northern Kensington: Volume 37, , Vol. 38, (1973)
'Building News' in Building News, (1875)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.