Description

TQ 2980 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER ALBEMARLE STREET W1

70/20 No 20 (part of Royal
9.1.70 Institution)

GV I

Terrace house, late C18, remodelled internally early and late C19.
Yellow stock brick, slate roof. 4 storeys, basement and dormered
mansard. 5 windows wide. Altered ground floor with 3 bay early to
mid C20 shop front and semicircular arched doorway to right with
fanlight, in stucco surround with consoles carrying entablature. Upper
floors have revealed sash windows, no glazing bars, under flat gauged
arches. Moulded stone cornice over 2nd floor. Parapet with coping.
Area railings of cast iron with urn finials. Early C19 interior with
cornices, doorcases, stone staircase with wrought iron balustrade,
chimneypiece with Wedgwood plaque brought in from No 32 Soho Square,
Sir Joseph Banks' house. No 20 was incorporated into the Royal
Institution in 1894.

Listing NGR: TQ2902380601

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17527033

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)