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

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