Description

TQ 2881 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER QUEEN ANNE STREET, Wl
45/103 (north side)
No 8
G.V. II
Corner terraced town house. 1914-1915 by W H White. Portland stone with
channelled ground floor; slate roof. Free Dixhuitieme style. 4 storeys,
basement and dormered mansard. 3 windows wide with entrance in 5 bay return to
Mansfield Street. Architraved concave revealed doorway off centre left to
return. Front has canted bay windows through ground and 1st floors to right and
single window to left,all with architraved sash lights, the bay and left hand
window finished off with same cornice and bombé papapet detail; upper floors
have architraves and cornices and vertically linked foliated surrounds. Plat
band over ground floor; paired console brackets, between 3rd floor windows, to
crowning cornice with parapet. Cast iron Louis XV-Louis XVI balconettes to 1st
floor windows. The long return is flanked by full height canted bays with
concave sides, surmounted by panelled shouldered chimney stacks and sash
windows,one at either side of 2 storey central canted bay; open paired Ionic
column loggia between flanking canted bays at 3rd floor level. Cast iron area
railings. The detailing is similar to No 3 Mansfield Street qv whose garden
colonnade links up with the return of No 8.

Listing NGR: TQ2874181578

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27083144

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Recommended Books

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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)