4 Cadogan Square
| 4 Cadogan Square | |
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 4 Cadogan Square (far right) | |
 Interactive map of the 4 Cadogan Square area | |
General information | |
| Type | Residential |
Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
| Location | Knightsbridge, London, England |
| Coordinates | 51°29′46″N 0°09′38″W / 51.496014°N 0.160448°W |
| Completed | 1879 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | George Edmund Street |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
Official name | 4 Cadogan Square |
| Designated | 15 April 1969 |
| Reference no. | 1080740 |
4 Cadogan Square is a Grade II* listed house on Cadogan Square, a garden square in Knightsbridge.[1] The house is in a Gothic style, distinguishing it from other houses on the square.[2]
History
[edit]Cadogan Square was developed in the 1870s and 1880s. The house was completed in 1879 for the daughters of James Henry Monk, the Bishop of Gloucester.[3]
Architecture and design
[edit]The architect, George Edmund Street primarily worked in church architecture and had designed St James the Less for Monk. Street's Gothic style is displayed on 4 Cadogan Square making it unique in an area of houses otherwise built in Queen Anne Revival or "Pont Street Dutch" styles.[4]
The house features a stone balcony on its east side, as well as intricate ironwork common in Street's designs.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "4 Cadogan Square, Non Civil Parish - 1080740 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 2026-06-09.
- ↑ Jones, Edward; Woodward, Christopher (2013). Guide to the architecture of London (Revised and updated for the thirtieth anniversary ed.). London: W&N. p. 205. ISBN 978-1-78022-493-0.
- 1 2 Cherry, Bridget; Pevsner, Nikolaus, eds. (2002), London. 3: North West / by Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner (1. publ. by Yale Univ. Press ed.), Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, ISBN 978-0-300-09652-1
- ↑ Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher, eds. (1995). The London encyclopaedia (Rev. ed.). London: Macmillan. p. 113. ISBN 978-0-333-57688-5.