Description

TQ 3079 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER PARLIAMENT STREET, SW1
92/27 (east side)
5.2.70 No 44
G.V. II*
Terraced town house. c1753, altered early C19. Stuccoed brick, slate roof. 4
storeys, basement and dormered mansard. 3 windows wide. Channelled ground floor
has c1900 Post Office with pilaster-mullioned window and doorway to right.
Upper floors have recessed sashes in stucco architraves, those on 1st floor
with cornices, the central window with pediment on consoles. Plat band and sill
bands, main cornice over 2nd floor, attic cornice with balustraded parapet. 1st
floor has early C19 cast iron balcony. Late C19 cast iron area railings.
Interior retains elegant turned baluster staircase and 1st floor drawing room
has fine Rococo plasterwork ceiling etc. With No 43 (q.v.) the only surviving
terrace house of the original Parliament Street opened in 1749-50.
Survey of London; Vol X

Listing NGR: TQ3018679744

Selected Sources

• 'Survey of London' in The Parish of St Margaret Westminster Part 1: Volume 10 , , Vol. 10, (1926)

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