Description

TQ 2980 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER ST. JAMES'S SQUARE,
82/32 SW1
5.2-70 No 33 (including Nos 31
and 32 Charles II Street)
G.V. II*
Terraced town mansion on corner site. 1770-72 by Robert Adam and retaining
part of his interiors, with eastern extension/rebuilding along Charles II
Street by Sir John Soane 1817-23, C.19 heightening, and alterations for
club and offices in 1911 by Edmerton and Gabriel. Brown brick with 1911
stone facing to ground floor. Astylar facades. 3 storeys and (C.19) attic
storey, basement and dormered mansard. 4 windows wide with 11-window
return to Charles II Street (the 5 to east Soane's addition). 2-bay Ionic
columned portico (1911) to right facing St. James's Square and 3 equally
spaced and of same design but of 3 bays to Charles II Street. Recessed
glazing bar sashes, those on upper floors under flat gauged arches.
Continuous stone balustraded balcony to 1st floor carried over porticoes;
guilloche plat band to 2nd floor, stone main cornice over 3rd floor and
stone dentil cornice below parapet. Soane addition to the return has a 3
bay composition of narrow windows flanking a wide one, articulated by brick
pilaster strips but otherwise respecting Adam's "ordonnance"; the end bay
contains a high carriage-archway formerly giving access to the Bishop of
London's stables behind No. 32. Cast iron area railings. Despite the
alterations to the interior the principal Adam features of the 1st floor
rooms are intact with fine delicate ceilings (3 authenticated by drawings
in the Soane Museum) and friezes, doorcases, chimneypieces, the apsed end
former dressing-room etc, but very little remains of Soane's work.
Survey of London; VOL. XXIX.

Listing NGR: TQ2958780375

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q96464784

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