Description

TQ 3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER MERCER STREET, WC2
72/1
Nos. 3 and 5

G.V. II

Artisans' dwellings. c.1905, built by the Mercers' Company Estate. Dark
red ceramic brick, some red brick and stone dressings, slate roof. Free
Style "Wrenaissance" but with more pronounced Baroque details to stonework.
3 storeys and dormered mansard. 8 windows wide. 2 staircase entrances
flank the centre pair of window bays, stone architraved doorways with bold
segmental open pediments framing large cartouche-keys sculpted with
Mercers' Company Queen's head emblem; oculus with red brick dressings and
stone key above each doorway; the open staircases above made more of a
feature than usual rising through eaves with attic and stone dressed,
each finished off with semicircular arch with large key reaching up into
segmental open pediment with swag ornament. The 2 central window bays and
those flanking staircases have shallow canted bays with glazing bar sashes
recessed in splayed reveals under coppered, lion-head studded lintels; the
outer window bays have flush framed glazing bar sashes under flat gauged
red brick arches.

Listing NGR: TQ3014680983

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27080816

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