Description

TQ 2880 NW UPPER BROOK STREET

68/102 No 19 and attached
railings

II GV

Terraced town house, now offices. c1737 but facade remodelled c1865 in style of
Thomas Cundy II, top storey added late c1885, porch added and interior remodelled
c1903-4 by W H Romaine-Walker and Besant for Arthur W Davis. Grey stock brick with
red brick top floor, channelled ashlar ground floor and stone portico and dressings.
Slate roof with pedimented dormers. Four storeys; attic and basement.
Three windows. Projecting portico with Ionic pilasters linked by a swag flanking a
round-arched entrance with keystone; entablature surmounted by a stone balustrade
continuing across the first floor windows. Casement windows apart from fourth floor
and attic sashes. First floor windows with lugged architraves and pediments;
second floor lugged architraves, bracketted sills and continuous sill band; third
floor projecting cornice and architraved sashes. Rear elevation with wide bow
running through the main storeys. Interior in sumptuous Empire style; high quality
workmanship under the supervision of Charles Mellier and Co, using French craftsmen.
Features include marble paved entrance hall with elegant cantilevered, curved stair
forming diminishing oval well and having cast iron balusters and brass hand rail;
lit by circular lantern with plasterwork swags. Stairwell with niche recesses to
enriched panelled walls. Good marble fireplaces with brass enrichment throughout.
First floor drawing rooms with central marble Ionic screen. Second floor rooms in
Beaux-Arts classical idiom. A good example of the arrangement and style of the
grander Edwardian town house.

Listing NGR: TQ2807980782

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27082208

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Recommended Books

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)