Description

TQ 2880 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER CARLOS PLACE W1
69/62
Nos 2 to 8 (consec)
6.10.82
II
GV

A quadrant block of houses 1891-93 by J E Trollope of Giles, Gough and Trollope. Red
brick with lavish Portland stone dressings, slate roofs. Free English/Flemish
Renaissance style. Four storeys, basement and attic storey with dormers and shaped and
straight gables. Effective rhythm of canted bay windows through storeys, balustraded
parapets and gables, enlivened on alternate houses by bands of carved brick Renaissance
decorative ornament. The canted bays, with mullioned lights and glazing bars and
leading, are in some cases capped with ogee copper roofs. Semicircular arched and
recessed porches. No 8 has a polygonal bay window to corner and a 2 storey rear wing
the upper part timber framed. Basement areas have ornamental cast iron railings.
Panelled stone and brick chimney stacks prominent on ridge of roof. Part of the
1880s-90s rebuilding of Mount Street for the Grosvenor Estate. Prominent corner
site.

Survey of London Vol XL.

Listing NGR: TQ2857480665

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26319312

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)