Description

TQ 2881 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER HARLEY STREET, W1
45/36 (West side)
14.3.66 No. 93
G.V. II
Terraced corner house. c.1777 Portland Estate development probably by
John White in partnership with the plasterer Thomas Collins (associates
of Sir William Chambers). Stock brick with channelled stucco ground
floor; slate roof. Bowed rear and wing with bowed re-entrant angle. 4
storeys and basement. 3 windows wide with 4-window return to Weymouth
Street. Semicircular arched doorway beneath early to mid C.19 stucco
Doric columned porch; panelled door, sidelights and fanlight. Recessed
sashes, under flat gauged arches to upper floors. Stucco plat bands and
modillion cornice. Early C.19 cast iron balcony of enriched slender
baluster pattern across 1st floor. Cast iron area railings with urn
finials. Fine interior elaborated on the norm typical of these
speculative 1st rate houses of the 1770s in Harley Street; top lit
geometrical stone staircase with anthemion-scroll wrought iron
balustrade, decorated skylight drum; delicate flute and patera and wreath
and garland plasterwork with stucco mythological relief medallions a la
Chambers, framed by garlands, over inlaid marble chimneypieces and in
hall; mahogany doors; etc.

Listing NGR: TQ2858881820

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27081383

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Recommended Books

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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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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990