Description

TQ 2881 SW
55/53

CITY OF WESTMINSTER
DUKE STREET, W1
Nos. 55 to 73 (odd)

GV
II
Terrace of shops and chambers. 1890-1892 by W.D. Caröe for the Grosvenor Estate. Narrow, fine red bricks with Ketton stone dressings and ground floor facing; slate roofs. Lively and eclectic Franco-Flemish Renaissance/Queen Anne style.

Three main storeys and two storeys of dormers in steep mansard with two storey Flemish gable over principal double frontage. Slightly asymmetrical composition with off centre gabled double frontage six windows wide flanked by two and three window wide fronts but with varied window groupings. Stone faced ground floor has basket handle arched doorways and display windows articulated by French Loire-style order with strapwork, cartouche and baluster enrichments, rising to cornice.

Upper floors have architraved and cavetto mullioned, single and coupled windows with cornices, in serried rank to second floor of double frontage; the first floor of Nos. 61-63 has a tent roofed mullioned and transomed canted bay on corbel brackets to right and there are tripartite, rectangular, tent roofed, corbelled bay windows to first floor of Nos. 71 and 73; that of No. 73 is run into a stone faced narrow square turret rising through second floor and mansard and terminating in a concave spire; at the north end No. 57 has a similar turret finished off with onion dome and spirelet. Pseudo-parapets to first and second floors and crowning entablature with superimposed Loire orders flanking fronts. Animated roofscape with canted stone dormers to lower tier and hipped roof dormers with spirelets to upper tier; much elaborated voluted and ball-finialed Flemish gable over-double frontage; moulded saddlestones to fore walls, rising from large console buttresses; tall brick chimney stack with enriched stone caps.

See also Caröe's slightly later block Nos. 75 to 83 odd Duke Street.

Listing NGR: TQ2841381026

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26319767

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