Description

TQ 2780 NW and 2781 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER HYDE PARK SQUARE,
53/23 ;66/3 W2
10.4.75 Nos.30 to 37
(consec)
G.V. II
Symmetrical terrace. c. 1830-40 probably by Ledwell Taylor. Stock
brick with stucco ground floors incised with coursing, slate roofs.
4 storeys, basements and dormered mansards. 3 window wide fronts in
composition of 3:6:6:6:3 bays with end houses slightly advanced.
Corniced and architraved doorways to left and right hands. Recessed
sashes, most with glazing bars, those on 1st floor with architraves
and cornices and with pediments to end houses and centre pair;
architraves to 2nd floor windows. Entablature with dentil cornice
over 2nd floor, attic cornice and blocking course. Cast iron
geometric pattern balcony continuous to 1st floor. Cast iron spear
head area railings. Roofscape rhythm provided by party wall mounted,
stucco, corniced chimney stacks. Part of the Tyburnia development
planned in 1827 by S.P. Cockerell for the Bishop of London's Estate
(Church commissioners), but laid out to modified plan by Cockerell's successor
G Gutch.
'The History of Tyburnia', G Toplis, Country Life 15, 22 Nov 1973.

Listing NGR: TQ2710180997

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26525218

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