Description

TQ 2880 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER MOUNT STREET W1
69/127 (south side)

2.7.69 Nos 117, 118 and 119, 119A
120, 120A, 120B, 121,
121A
GV
II

Terrace of houses and flats with shops. 1886-7 by James Trant Smith.: Red brick and
lavish terracotta dressings, slate roofs. Ornate and eclectic exercise in Queen Anne
and Flemish styles: Four storeys with dormered and gabled attics. Ground floor mostly
original shop fronts with segmented arched display windows framed together with
doorways by engaged decorated columns and pilasters supporting continuous entablature
with iron cresting. Upper floors have 2 pairs of canted bay windows flanking central
bowed oriel rising to shaped gable and at each end of block polygonal corner pavilions
with domed attics - mullioned-transomed casements and sashes with glazing bars in
architraves. Smaller gabled windows and elliptical arched dormers in roof. Moulded
string and sill courses. The east corner pavilion has additional cast iron balconies
and inset busts to each floor. Plain brick return elevations. Prominent chimney
stacks. Part of the 1880s -90s rebuilding of Mount Street for the Grosvenor Estate.

Listing NGR: TQ2857780625

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27080907

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)