Description

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TQ 2881 NE
45/53

CITY OF WESTMINSTER
PORTLAND PLACE, W1 (west side)
Nos 27 to 35 (odd)

(Formerly listed as Nos 29 to 35 (odd) (including No 71 New Cavendish Street, formerly No 27, Portland Place))

10.9.54

GV
II*
Large terraced first rate town houses, 1776-c1780 by James Adam, as a speculative development with his brothers and John Elwes on a Portland Estate lease. Stock brick with stucco ground floors; slate roofs. Astylar elevations designed as part of a symmetrical block with Nos 41 to 47 (odd) q.v.

Four storeys (including added attic storeys) on basements. Three window wide fronts and then eight bays, first two blind, in the return to New Cavendish Street with entrance. Broad semicircular arched doorways with panelled double doors, side lights and fanlights above ram's head cornice doorheads; No 35 has mid C19 segmental vaulted covered way on cast iron posts extending to pavement. Entrance on New Cavendish Street has Doric columned stucco porch with dentil cornice and iron balustrade over. Recessed sashes, under flat gauged arches to upper floors. Plat band finishing off ground floor stonework; moulded stucco band over first floor and main cornice over second floor with secondary cornice and blocking course to attic. No 35 has mid C19 barrel-roofed, glazed-in, arcaded verandah and all have cast iron Grecian or mid C19 balconies to first floor. Cast iron area railings with plumbed spike finials.

All retain fine Adam interior features with delicate plaster work and some inset panels and medallions; stone geometrical staircases with wrought iron balustrades; statuary marble chimneypieces etc.

Listing NGR: TQ2875481731

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q68300873

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Recommended Books

• 
  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings