Description

TQ 2880 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER HAY'S MEWS,W1
80/27 No 16

GV II*

the address shall be amended to read No 14.

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TQ 2880 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER CHARLES STREET W1
80/27 (north side)
No 16 (including 16
Hay's Mews)
9.1.70
GV II*

the address shall be amended to read "CHARLES STREET W1 (north side)
No 16 (including 14 Hay's Mews)".

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TQ 2880 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER CHARLES STREET W1
80/27 (North side)
No 16 (including 16
9.1.70 Hay's Mews)

GV II*

Substantial terraced town house. 1753, by John Spencer and William Timbrell,
carpenters on a Berkeley estate lease; major internal remodelling in 1913-14
by Mewes and Davis for the Hon Mrs Ronald Greville. Brown brick, slate roof.
4 storeys, including attic storey and dormered mansard, on basement. 4
windows wide. c.1913 stone Ionic columned doorway with open cartouched
pediment in 2nd bay from left. Recessed glazing bar sash windows under flat
gauged arches. Stone plat band and sill band to 1st floor; main stone cornice
over 2nd floor; parapet with coping. Cast iron area railings and stone
obelisk gate piers in front of entrance. Interiors on vast and grand scale,
retaining elements of original Palladian decoration but much elaborated by
Mewes and Davis in neo-Georgian and "Louis XV-XVI" manner, incorporating
apparently original boiseries; double pile plan with rear left full height,
top lit grand stair compartment, marble clad as are stairs up to the "Stage
noble" (probably the original disposition) with fine ormulu-enriched wrought iron
"Louis XVI" balustrade; at 1st floor the compartment walls have large Kentian
framed panels flanked by floral pendants and at the 2nd floor level, with bridge-
gallery, rectangular framed panels; enriched plat bands and cornices. Ground
floor reception rooms fully panelled incorporating reset elements of French mid-
C18 boiseries; the Rococo plasterwork of the ceilings and the enriched
modillion cornices may incorporate or be an elaboration of the original
decoration. 1st floor through drawing room-ballroom with marble Ionic
column screen and reset boiseries of c.1730-40, plasterwork of ceiling
conceivably an elaboration-refurbishment but more likely Mewes and Davis
work as it is more French than English in style. Fine statuary marble
chimney pieces. Vaulted passages one above the other to ground and 1st
floors, the latter with grotesque painting, lead to rear former coach
house wing on Hay's Mews where Mewes and Davis installed a vast ballroom in
grand Palladian manner, with deeply coved ceiling, columned and pedimented
doorcases, etc.

Listing NGR: TQ2866180407

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17549630

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