Description

TQ 2880 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER SOUTH STREET, Wl
79/12 (north side)
5.2.70 No. 23
G.V. II
Terraced house on corner and part of Balfour Mews development.
1898-99 by Balfour and Turner with addition of shallow projecting 2
storey entrance bay in 1913 approved by Thackeray Turner, to make
No. 23 properly a "mews house". Fine quality red brick with stone
dressings, tiled roof, in Balfour and Turner restrained late Queen
Anne Arts and Crafts idiom. 2 storeys,basement and dormered attic.
Irregular front with shallow parapeted entrance bay next to corner
with rusticated pilastered doorway flanked by high set small segmental
arched flush framed windows and with one flush framed glazing bar sash
window to 1st floor. Recessed right hand part has 3 closely set flush
framed glazing bar sashes with segmental arches on ground floor, flat
arches on 1st floor. Deep bracketed stone eaves cornice, 2 large
gabled dormers. Gabled return to mews with brown glazed brick ground
floor and 3 light windows under segmental arches with rusticated
dressings to reveals. Tall panelled brick and stone chimney stacks.
Arts and Crafts ironwork to area-railings. Part of Balfour and
Turner's redevelopment of this part of the Estate. See also Nos. 3
and 4 Aldford Street and Balfour Mews.
Survey of London; Vol. XL.

Listing NGR: TQ2834980451

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27081547

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)