Description

TQ 2781 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER CONNAUGHT SQUARE, W2
54/84
9.1.70 No. 47

G.V. II

Terrace house on south east corner of square and Stanhope Place.
c.1828-30, probably by George Gutch. Brown brick with channelled stucco
ground floor, concealed slate roof. 4 storeys and basement. 2 windows
wide to Stanhope Place and 5-window north front to square and Seymour
Street. Entrance in north front with semicircular arched doorway with
inset Greek Doric columns, panelled door and fanlight. Recessed glazing
bar sashes, some blind to north front, under flat gauged red brick arches
to upper floors. Stucco plat band over ground floor and at 3rd floor
level, crowning cornice and blocking course. Gothic patterned cast iron
balcony to 1st floor. Cast iron, spear head, urn finialed area railings.
Connaught Square is the earliest part of the development of Tyburnia,
planned in 1827 by S.P. Cockerell for the Bishop of London's Estate, but
laid out to modified plan by Cockerell's successor George Gutch.

"The History of Tyburnia"; G. Toplis; Country Life, 15, 22 Nov. 1973.

Listing NGR: TQ2757081036

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26319855

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