Description

TQ 2781 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER GREAT CUMBERLAND PLACE, 54/74 W1 14.1.70 Nos. 29 to 35 (odd) and 35A G.V. II Terraced town houses. c.1789-90, possibly by William Porden (who had a lease on No. 38 q.v.) as part of a Portman Estate development, originally intended as a complete circus or double crescent of which only the eastern half (Nos. 24 to 42, even, q.v.) was built according to plan. Stock brick with channelled stucco ground floors (plain to No. 35A); concealed slate roofs. 5 storeys, except for 4-storeyed No. 35A, on basements. 3-window wide fronts except for No. 35A which has 2 window and 5-window return to Upper Berkeley Street with entrance. Semicircular arched doorways to right with panelled doors and fanlights, Nos. 29 to 33 in mid C.19 stucco surrounds, No. 35 retaining original patterned fanlight and No. 35A with enclosed Ionic columned stucco porch to return. Recessed sashes, under flat gauged arches to upper floors. Plat bands finishing off ground floor stucco work and band at 1st floor pseudo parapet level cut by windows; stringcourses to 2nd and 3rd floors and main entablature with bold dentil cornice over 3rd floor; crowning cornice and blocking course. No. 35 is emphasised as pavilion of formerly symmetrical terrace composition by an order of 4, thin, Ionic pilasters through 1st and 2nd floors. No. 35A has plain front finished off with cornice and blocking course. Original, cast iron, geometric patterned 1st floor balconies, with individual balconettes to No. 35A. Cast iron area railings with urn finials and Nos. 29, 33 and 35 with notably elegant wrought iron lamp brackets and link extinguishers.

Listing NGR: TQ2775681205

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