Description

TQ 2981 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER DEAN STREET, W1 58/69 (west side)

Nos. 67 and 68. 24.2.58 II* GV

Pair of terrace houses. 1731-32 by John Meard. Stock brick, the ground floor of No. 67 stuccoed, tiled roofs. 4 storeys and basements. Each front 3 windows wide. Doorways to left and right respectively with panelled doors and rectangular fanlights, recessed in painted stone doorcases of Roman Doric pilasters, the entablatures with triglyphs and rosettes in friezes and projecting cornices. Slightly recessed partly exposed frame later Georgian glazing bar sashes under segmental red brick arches and with red brick dressings. Moulded brick cornice below attic storey and parapet with stone coping. The 3 bay return of No. 68 to Meard Street has 3 blind similarly dressed windows and quoin pilaster strip to left; stone tablet inscribed "Meards Street, 1732." Early C19 tassle-head area railings. Exceptionally complete panelled interiors both to similar plan and including panelled passage entrance with box cornice, fluted Doric pilastered opening to dog leg stairs with cut carved strings up to landing above 1st floor, closed strings above and down to basement, with Doric column balusters and newels; moulded and fielded panelling to 1st floor rooms with enriched cornices, original marble chimneypieces, panelled closets with angle fireplaces etc, See also Meard's contemporary development in Meard Street.

Survey of London; Vol. XXXIII.

Listing NGR: TQ2968581027

External Links

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