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

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings