Description

TQ 29980 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER ST. JAMES'S SQUARE SW1
81/102
24.2.58 No 18
GV II
Town house on corner site. 1846 refacing and alteration by Elger
and Kelk of a 1725 town house. Stucco faced brick, slate roof.
Ornate Italianate design. 4 storeys and basement. 4 windows wide
and 3 window return to King Street with central entrance. Rusti-
cated ground floor with vermiculated rustication to windows and
vermiculated impost band linking bearded head keystones. 1st floor
windows with balustraded balconies have architraves and unusual
emphasis to 2nd floor where the similarly balconied windows have
eared enriched architraves and segmental pediments. Small square
attic floor windows in decorated frieze below prominent crowning
cornice. Cornices separate each floor with rusticated quoining.
The King Street return has slightly advanced broad central bay
with large applied portico of clustered Doric columns, Venetian
window on 1st floor behind balustraded balcony over portico,
similar fenestration otherwise as on front to Square. The design
is integrated with the terrace Nos 1A, lB, lC King Street, St James's q.v.
by the same architects.

Listing NGR: TQ2943380313

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27081493

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