Description

TQ 2782 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER DORSET SQUARE, NW1
(East side)
34/61
10.9.54 Nos. 1 to 8(consec.)

II
G.V.

Terraced town houses forming east side of square. c.1815-20 Portman
Estate development. Stock brick with stucco ground floors mostly banded;
concealed slate roofs. Symmetrically balanced block with central pair
(Nos. 4 and 5) slightly advanced. 4 storeys and basement. 3-window wide
fronts apart from No. 1 with 4 windows and the central pair with 2 each.
Doorways symmetrically placed to left and right, semicircular arched with
panelled doors flanked by Greek Doric columns in antis carrying Greek key
enriched doorheads below patterned fanlights (apart from Nos. 6, 7 and
8). Recessed sashes, some with glazing bars, under flat gauged arches to
upper floors, those of central pair with stuccoed flat arches and
keyblocks. Plat band over ground floor. Crowning stucco cornice and
blocking course. Cast iron geometric pattern balconies across 1st floor
and Nos. 1, 2 and 8 with good iron trellis standard verandahs with tent
roofs. Cast iron area railings with urn finials.

Listing NGR: TQ2776082064

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26505657

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Recommended Books

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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House