Description

TQ 2881 CITY OF WESTMINSTER NEW CAVENDISH STREET, W1
45/54 (north side)
No 73
G.V. II
Town villa. Later C.19 rebuild of Portland Place mews building. Stucco,
slate fish scale slates to front pitch roof. Interesting case of "Regency"
Revival. 2 storeys, basement and dormered mansard. 5 windows wide with
central entrance bay slightly advanced. Chanelled stucco ground floor has
semicircular arched doorway in centre break, framed by pilasters carrying
entablature with modillioned cornice; panelled door moulded doorhead and reveal
enriched with rope moulding and keystone. Recessed sashes (one blind on
ground floor), those on 1st floor in eared architraves. Rusticated quoins,
enriched cornice over ground floor and crowning entablature with modillion
cornice and a blocking course which is slightly inflected over centre break.
The dormers have shouldered bases and segmental arched cornice-hoods. Early
instance of the Portland Estate reintroducing a modest domestic residential
scale in this area, a scheme pursed on these east-west cross streets in the
early 1900s.

Listing NGR: TQ2885981752

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27080951

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments