Description

TQ 2980 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER KING STREET ST. JAMES'S SW1
82/42
Nos lA, lB, lC
GV II
Terrace houses. 1846, by Elger and Kelk. Stucco, slate roofs.
Italianate terrace elevation. 4 storeys and basement finished off
with Vitruvian scroll frieze, dentil cornice and coped parapet. 2
bays each. No lC slightly advanced. Shallow porches with attached
Doric columns to left. Ground floor channelled with continuous
vermiculated frieze band incorporating tripled keystones over entrance
doors and windows. 1st and 2nd floors have sash windows, no glazing
bars, in architraves with segmental pediments on 1st floor and consoled
cornices on 2nd floor; plain 3rd floor windows on sill band. The inner
bays of Nos lA and lB have side lights. 1st floor balcony with mid
C20 ironwork. Mid C20 renewed area railings. No lC has Minton ware
commemorative plaque put up by the Society of Arts in 1875, inscribed
"Napoleon III (1808-1873) lived here 1848" - one of the earliest
surviving plaques erected by the (R) S. A. The terrace now forms
part of No 18 St. James's Square q.v.
Survey of London; vol XXIX

Listing NGR: TQ2943380313

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27080749

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