Description

cZTi OF WESTMINSTER WEYMOUTH STREET, W1
TQ 2881 NE
45/155 No 33, including
conservatory, area
walls and party walls
with tile murals
GV II
House. 1894-5. Designed by Davis and Emanuel. Tile murals to conservatory,
front area wall and party walls enclosing area to south and west signed by Marcel
Logeat, Paris and dated 1905. House of red brick; steeply pitched tiled roof
to eaves. 2 storeys plus basement and attic. 6 windows wide to first floor
the 3 to right closely spaced beneath scrolly attic gable. Segmental pedimented
entrance to left bay. Stone mullioned windows to ground floor. Segmental headed
sashes to first floor and within gable, and 2 square headed dormers, that to
left double beneath hipped gable, that to right with small pediment. Conservatory
waiting room to right of 1 storey with clerestory and sloped lead covered roof.
Conservatory contains trompe d'oeil ceramic mural to one full wall returning
along part of a second and depicting a landscape scene as though viewed from
a terrace. From beneath a trellis canopy supporting a vine. The other 2 walls
are aisled and largely glazed; there is much decorate turned wood. Further
tile mural attached at ground floor level to party walls enclosing area to south
and west sides, depicting a lake scene with blossom tree, ducks, flowers, birds
and insects; a third ceramic mural is sited on the north area wall, facing the
basement window; this depicts a Dutch style tavern scene with two men, a woman
and a boy with a fiddle, and a further landscape view. The house is listed
on account of the conservatory and its murals, and the other areas of ceramic
murals.

Listing NGR: TQ2866181810

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27081616

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