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Baker Street Station Chiltern Court

  • English National Heritage: Baker Street Station: Main Entrance Building and Metropolitan, Circle and Hammersmith and City Line Platforms (Nos 1-6) Including Retaining Wall To Approach Road
  • Also Known As: Chiltern Court
  • Address: Marylebone Rd
  • Vicinity: Baker St
  • Neighborhood of Marylebone in London
  • Travel Genus: Sight , Sight
  • Sight Category: Structure

Baker Street Station is a London Underground train station and English Listed Building on Marylebone Road in London, England. Above the Victorian station, is the upscale Chiltern Court apartment building. - AsNotedIn


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Timeline

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1912/00/00 Metropolitan Railway Owner Metropolitan Railway begins building a hotel and new company headquarters above its Baker Street underground railway station. Construction will be haunted by the hostilities of the Great War, 1914-1918.
1927/00/00 Charles W Clark Architect Metropolitan Railway restarts construction above its Baker Street station with a new design that replaces the hotel by an apartment block and a restaurant.
1929/00/00 Metropolitan Railway Owner Chiltern Court apartments are completed above its Baker Street Underground Station. The finished building offers 180 apartments, a hairdressers and the Chiltern Court Restaurant.
1930/00/00 Arnold Bennett Home Arnold Bennett buys a flat at Chiltern Court.
1930/00/00 Composer Eric Coates makes a home in flat 176. Mr Coates, a composer of light music, will live here until 1939.
1930/00/00 H G Wells Home H G Wells takes a flat at Chiltern Court where he will host literary salons.
1931/03/27 Arnold Bennett Died Arnold Bennett dies at age 63 of typhoid fever.
1935/00/00 In the 1930s, New Zealand cartoonist David Low and family live at Chiltern Court.
1942/00/00 The Norwegian Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), based in three flats at Chiltern Court, plan attacks on the heavy water plant at Telemark, in Nazi occupied Norway.
1944/00/00 English physician, Vincent Zachary Cope, makes his home at Chiltern Court.

Places

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PlaceAsNotedInType
1-21, Cornwall Terrace Nw1
  • ELB 1
222, Marylebone Road Nw1
  • ELB 2
8-12, York Gate Nw1
  • ELB 1
The Volunteer Public House
  • ELB 2
York Terrace
  • ELB 1

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Particulars for Baker Street Station Chiltern Court:
Building Type Apartment Building
Area of Significance Architecture
Structure type Bridge
Sight Category Building
Structure Design Cut and cover tunnel
Area of Significance Engineering
Historic Use Multiple dwelling
Architectural Style Neoclassical
Historic Use Pedestrian Related
Criteria Person
Area of Significance Social History
Sight Category Structure
Area of Significance Transportation

Data
NHLE List Entry Number: 1239815



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