Description

WESTMINSTER
BRICK STREET
TQ2880SE
1900- /80/10063 (North side)
No.11
GV II
GV
Former stables and coach house, now garaging. 1882-3 by James
Brooks for the Marquis of Londonderry. Red brick with rubbed
brick and terracotta dressings, slate roof with high stacks on
front elevation. Courtyard plan, with carriage entrance in
centre of a front elevation intended to provide ground-floor
accommodation for the stable hands and a first-floor suite for
the coach man. Separate block to right formerly housing loose
boxes, with coach house to rear. Narrow range to left
originally also stables, now garaging and with extended modern
canopy of no interest. Street elevation of seven bays with
central carriage entrance under terracotta Gibbs surround with
decorated keystone and three-light terracotta oriel. Double
doors with decorative ironwork in open panels. Circular window
to right, the other fenestration comprises 8 and 12-light
sashes under segmental heads with keystone. To rear of this
block elaborate Dutch gables with pyramidal tops, that to
centre with moulded brick niches and the arms of the Marquis
of Londonderry surmounting altered window. Similar gables with
ball finials and original glazing to western elevation. One
door with elaborate shell hood. interiors retain some teak
doors, moulded glazed tilework and cast iron columns.
Source
The Builder, 17 February 1883, p.207.

Listing NGR: TQ2855380100

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27082336

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