Buildings in Stanhope Gate
Buildings in Stanhope Gate
Record No
141947
Title
Buildings in Stanhope Gate
Description
View of 1-6 Stanhope Gate, Mayfair (formerly Great Stanhope Street). The five-storey office building of the General Electric Company (GEC) is visible at the far end at numbers 1-2, on a site previously damaged by bombing in World War II. Founded in 1886, GEC sold its business and name to Ericssons in 2005. This building has since been demolished and replaced with a modern apartment block. The two apartment blocks at numbers 3-4 were built on a site totally destroyed by bombing in World War II. These buildings remain. At number 5, a four-storey house with basement, mansard roof and dormer, built in 1760, and Grade II listed, entry 1236581. This house bears a London County Council blue plaque to Lord Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788-1855); the Commander of the British troops in 1854 during the Crimean War. At number 6, a four-storey house with basement, mansard roof and dormer windows, built in 1760, and Grade II listed, entry 1264513. Number 45 Park Lane, just visible in the right-hand foreground, was designed in the early 1960s by Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus school and a pioneer of modernist architecture. At one point occupied by Hugh Hefner's Playboy Club, it was rebuilt in 2010 and is now the 45 Park Lane Hotel. A ten-storey residential block called Chesterfield House is visible in the background. Built on the site of a mid-eighteenth-century mansion, also called Chesterfield House, owned by the Earl of Harewood who was married to the Princess Royal, which was demolished in 1934. Many cars are parked in the street.
Date of execution
1968
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_530_68_13312
London picture map location
Exact
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