Description

TQ 2981 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER LANGHAM STREET, W1
46/23
25.2.82 No. 42

GV II

Terrace house. Latter part of C18. Stock brick, slate roof. 4 storeys and
basement. 3 windows wide. Entrance to right with 6 panel door and rectangular
fanlight in architrave surround. Recessed later C19 sash windows with stuccoed
reveals under flat gauged arches and with stone sills. Stone coped parapet, original
cast iron area railings; iron boot scraper on left of doorstep. Interior retains
arcaded entrance hall with plaster cornices; open well staircase top lit by oval
radial glazed domed lantern. The stairs with shaped brackets to tread ends, slender
square balusters, enriched friezes to floor levels; original plasterwork cornices,
fluted door architraves,panelled reveals, shutters etc. Benjamin Wyatt, architect,
lived and worked here from 1810 to 1832 when obliged to move by bankruptcy.

Listing NGR: TQ2904381630

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27080765

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)