Description

TQ 2881 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER WEYMOUTH STREET, Wl
44/20 (North side)
No 36
G.V. II
Town "villa". C19 rebuild of mews building. Stuccoed with channelled
ground floor; slate roof. Interesting case of "Regency" Revival (or survival).
2 storeys and dormered mansard on basement. 4 windows wide. Architraved and
corniced doorway in 2nd bay from left. Segmental bowed tripartite window to
right and with pilaster dividers and entablature; otherwise glazing bar sashes
recessed in architraves. Corniced dormers with casements. Single storey one
window extension to right. Channelled quoins; 1st floor sill band; crowning
dentil cornice and parapet balustraded beneath each dormer. Cast iron plumbed
spike finialed area railings. Early instance of the Portland (Howard de Walden)
Estate re-introducing a domestic residential character in this professional
area - a scheme pursued on these east-west cross streets in the early 1900s.

Listing NGR: TQ2846081782

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26319106

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)