Description

In the entry for:
TQ 2880 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER PARK STREET, W1
79/9 (east side)
5.2.70 Nos. 8 to 12 (even)
GV II
the entry shall be amended to read as follows:

TQ 2880 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER PARK STREET, W1
79/9 (east side)
5.2.70 Nos. 8, 10 and 12
(including nos. 1, 3 and
5 Rex Place and sendce
block along Aldford
Street)
II
and the following shall be added to the list description:
Also included are the two-storey, stone and brick service block to the north of the block,
along Aldford Street and the mews to the rear, nos. 1, 3 and 5 Rex Place. The elevations
to Aldford Street match the main block in materials and design. The units to Rex Place have
two windows each and two storeys with a single, long dormer to each. Stucco facing, brick
and hipped roofs of tile. Segmental-arched openings to the ground floor and flat-arched to
the first floor and dormers. Party walls with stone coping expressed above the roof.

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The following entry shall be added to the list:
TQ 2880 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER REX PLACE, W1
1900-/79/9 Nos 1,3 and 5
(mews to nos.8,10 and
12 park Street)
see under nos.8, 10 and 12 PARK STREET.
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TQ 2880 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER PARK STREET, Wl
79/9 (east side)
5.2.70 Nos.8 to 12
(even)
G.V. II
Terraced town houses, 1897-1901 by A.H. Kersey. Red brick with ample
Portland stone dressings, slate roof. Busy Tudor-Gothic style with
carved decoration. 4 storeys and attic storey partly in gables,
partly in dormers, basements. No. 12 larger with entrance to side
elevation in Aldford Street. No. 8 and 10 treated as a pair of 2 wide
window bays. Recessed porches to left and right in projecting ground
floor, Tudor arched with paired columns on high pedestals, the
entablature with pulvinated carved frieze carried right across ground
floor of all three houses. Paired canted bays with tent roofs through
1st and 2nd floors of Nos. 8 and 10, the stone dressing linking up
with that of continuous band of windows across fronts, all stone
mullioned and transomed with Tudor cusped arched lights, windows above
porches recessed in archways. Common gable with flanking miniature
bartizan turrets over centre bays of Nos. 8 and 10, the elaborated
brick chimney stack rising from apex. Return of No. 12 has 2 similar
gables and long multi-light dormer between, a 3 storey canted bay and
similar recessed porch and banded fenestration including large 1st
floor mullioned transomed window with good Gothic ironwork. Ornate
and finely wrought Gothic ironwork to area railings.
Survey of London; Vol. XL.

Listing NGR: TQ2828080462

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27081143

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