Description

TQ 2979 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER OLD QUEEN STREET, SW1 91/10 (north side) 5.2.70 No 34 G.V. II Terraced town house. c1774-80 rebuild. Stock brick, slate roof. 5 storeys and basement. 3 windows wide. Fine doorway to right with elegant shallow porch of fluted slender Doric columns, dosserets and mutule cornice, the entablature returned into the semicircular arched opening, recessed for one order and with archivolt arched fanlight above the porch cornice. Recessed sashes under flat gauged arches. 1st floor plat band; dentil cornice over 2nd floor; brick "triglyph" frieze below parapet coping. 3-window canted bay to rear St James's Park elevation with cast iron balconies. Interior has deep narrow plan with one full width room to front and to back on 1st floor separated by central top lit stairwell; fine geometrical stone staircase rising on semicircular niche plan with delicate wrought iron S pattern balustrade; delicate neo-classical plasterwork to 1st floor ceilings and marble chimneypieces etc. See also similar Nos 14 to 24 Queen Anne's Gate. Survey of London; Vol X

Listing NGR: TQ2979179658

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