Description

TQ 2880 NW UPPER BROOK STREET

68/104 No 24 and attached
railings

II GV

Terraced town house, now offices. c1742 origin, refronted c1850 by Thomas Cundy II,
top storey added c1880, portico 1889 by Goldie, Child and Goldie. Ground floor bay
window by R Selden Wornum who may have been involved in the Jacobethan interior
remodelling for Sydney Ernest Kennedy probably c1906-7. Yellow stock brick with
stucco dressings. Tiled mansard roof with pedimented dormers. Four storeys, attic
and basement. Three windows. Projecting portico of paired Ionic columns supporting
an entablature surmounted by scrolled pediment with festoon, behind which a
balustraded balcony to first floor window. Canted bay transom and mullion ground
floor window. Upper floors with architraved casements; first floor with console
bracketted cornices and continuous bracketted sill band. Subsidiary cornice at
third floor level; main, projecting cornice and blocking course above third floor.
Attached cast iron railings to areas. Jacobethan style interior, unusual for
Mayfair; first floor drawing room in French style. Decoration originally more
elaborate. Features include hall with distyle in antis Corinthian screen supporting
4-centred arch; good quality carved Jacobethan and Flemish panelling including
portrait medallions (some possibly old); timber dog leg stair in C17 style with
turned balusters and panelled dado to second floor with landing; rear servants stair
to top floors. Ground floor rooms with Venetian Renaissance style fireplaces, that
in front room composition reproduction, rear room possible original marble with old
fireback. Upper floors plainer but with fine classically enriched dividing wall to
first floor with double doors.

Listing NGR: TQ2803780767

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27082210

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