Description

TQ 2881 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER HARLEY STREET W1 56/29 (west side) 10.9.54 No 13 - II* Terrace house. Mid to late C18. Brown brick with stuccoed ground floor and mid C19 stucco dressings. Four storeys, basement and dormered slate mansard. Three windows. Bracketed cornice to third floor. Revealed sash windows with flat gauged arches, stucco architraves with cornices on first floor, central one pedimented. Round headed doorway with side lights and fanlight. Continuous c.1800 cast iron balcony to first floor. Interior has front compartment staircase to full height, cut string and wrought iron scrolled balusters, returned as gallery to second floor; the ceiling has excellent Rococo plasterwork, deeply modelled. Doorcases have moulded architraves with shell motif and Chinoiserie feet to friezes of entablatures, similar moulding to window architraves. The drawing room to rear on first,floor with a canted bay has the rare survival of a complete Chinoiserie ceiling design with figures in central oval compartment and beneath "pagoda" kiosks in the corners as well as deeply modelled flying dragons all picked out in gilt and pastel tones above a modillion bracket cornice, etc.

Listing NGR: TQ2870881437

External Links

• Wikidata Q17549875

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)