Description

TQ 3080 NW and 3081 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER MERCER STREET, WC2
59/23; 72/2
Nos. 6 and 8

G.V. II

Artisans' dwellings. c.1908, built by the Mercers' Company Estate. Ceramic
red brick with rubbed red brick and stone dressings, slate roof. Free
Style "Wrenaissance" with good detailing. 3 storeys, basement and dormered
mansard. 5 windows wide with 2 storey semicircular arched through way to
right. Central staircase doorway in stone Gibbs surround with lush
consoles to scrolled open pediment framing cartouche-key. Flush framed
segmental arched glazing bar sashes and, in left hand bay, a shallow
through-storey canted bay recessed in splayed reveal opening with glazing
bar sash lights. Above the entrance the partially open staircase rising
into attic is made more of a feature than usual with enriched stone
framed oeil-de-boeuf on 1st floor and the opening through 2nd floor and
attic with rubbed brick dressings swelling into Tuscan reveal-columns.
Stone frieze and bracketed cornice. Spear head area railings.

Listing NGR: TQ3017680999

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27083430

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