Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 08/12/2016

TQ 2880 NE
69/138

CITY OF WESTMINSTER
ST GEORGE STREET, W1 (east side)
No 30

(Formerly listed as No 30 ST GEORGE'S STREET)

24.2.58

GV
II
Terrace town house. Early C18, c.1717-20. Brown brick and stone dressings, slate roof. Four storeys. Four windows wide. Rusticated stone doorway with cornice left of centre. Projecting stone surrounds to windows, camber headed on first floor, vertically linked by rusticated aprons, from ground to second floors; top attic storey has slightly cambered heads to stone surrounds; later C19 glazing to sashes. Rusticated brick and stone quoin piers up to main dentil cornice at third floor level which breaks forward over the piers; attic storey has panelled quoin piers and entablature with blocking course. Additional side entrance to left with rusticated surround and cornice.

Interior much altered but retains elements of first floor front rooms with cornices, shutters, doorcases etc.

Part of Lord Searborough's Hanover Square development introducing a German-Hanoverian facade type and a Baroque plan to scheme's layout.

Georgian London; John Sunmerson.

Listing NGR: TQ2897480908

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27081475

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)