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Latitude: 51.5092 / 51°30'33"N
Longitude: -0.1529 / 0°9'10"W
OS Eastings: 528280
OS Northings: 180534
OS Grid: TQ282805
Mapcode National: GBR 9F.V5
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.9BJD
Plus Code: 9C3XGR5W+MR
Entry Name: 78, Mount Street W1
Listing Date: 5 February 1970
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1223621
English Heritage Legacy ID: 419386
ID on this website: 101223621
Location: Mayfair, Westminster, London, W1K
County: London
District: City of Westminster
Electoral Ward/Division: West End
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: City of Westminster
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St George, Hanover Square
Church of England Diocese: London
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TQ 2880 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER MOUNT STREET, W1
68/80 (south side)
5.2.70 No. 78
G.V. II
Corner terrace house. 1896-97 by Balfour and Turner and virtually a
pair to their No. 6 Aldford Street q.v. Red brick with Portland stone
dressings, slate roof. Free Style Queen Anne and slightly Jacobethan
details. 5 storeys and basement. 2 unequal window bays. Recessed
porch to left with elliptical arch on broad squat stone piers, the
right hand pier overlapping the 2 window ground floor bay with central
dividing pilaster; the canted oriel of 4 architraved narrow sash
lights is corbelled out and its cornice is capped by iron railing as
balcony to 2nd floor tripartite stone dressed window with similar
windows in line above. Narrower coupled and single stone dressed
sashes to entrance bay on 2nd to 4th floors. The front is finished
off with stone coped parapet raised as gable over major right hand
bay. Return has 2 large corbelled chimney stacks linked by wide
segmental arches with balconies to ground and 1st floors, irregular
fenestration with small oriel butting stack nearest corner on 1st
floor. Cast iron Arts and Crafts area railings returned with screen
wall to garden linking up with those of No. 67 Aldford Street. Part
of island block development by Balfour and Turner as part of their
Grosvenor Estate improvements.
Survey of London; Vol. XL.
Listing NGR: TQ2828080534
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