Description

TQ 2880 NW UPPER BROOK STREET

68/104 No 24 and attached railings

II GV

Terraced town house, now offices. c1742 origin, refronted c1850 by Thomas Cundy II, top storey added c1880, portico 1889 by Goldie, Child and Goldie. Ground floor bay window by R Selden Wornum who may have been involved in the Jacobethan interior remodelling for Sydney Ernest Kennedy probably c1906-7. Yellow stock brick with stucco dressings. Tiled mansard roof with pedimented dormers. Four storeys, attic and basement. Three windows. Projecting portico of paired Ionic columns supporting an entablature surmounted by scrolled pediment with festoon, behind which a balustraded balcony to first floor window. Canted bay transom and mullion ground floor window. Upper floors with architraved casements; first floor with console bracketted cornices and continuous bracketted sill band. Subsidiary cornice at third floor level; main, projecting cornice and blocking course above third floor. Attached cast iron railings to areas. Jacobethan style interior, unusual for Mayfair; first floor drawing room in French style. Decoration originally more elaborate. Features include hall with distyle in antis Corinthian screen supporting 4-centred arch; good quality carved Jacobethan and Flemish panelling including portrait medallions (some possibly old); timber dog leg stair in C17 style with turned balusters and panelled dado to second floor with landing; rear servants stair to top floors. Ground floor rooms with Venetian Renaissance style fireplaces, that in front room composition reproduction, rear room possible original marble with old fireback. Upper floors plainer but with fine classically enriched dividing wall to first floor with double doors.

Listing NGR: TQ2803780767

External Links

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)