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Latitude: 51.5208 / 51°31'14"N
Longitude: -0.1458 / 0°8'45"W
OS Eastings: 528738
OS Northings: 181833
OS Grid: TQ287818
Mapcode National: GBR C9.F0
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.F18J
Plus Code: 9C3XGVC3+8M
Entry Name: 41-47, Portland Place W1
Listing Date: 10 September 1954
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1265549
English Heritage Legacy ID: 424604
ID on this website: 101265549
Location: Marylebone, Westminster, London, W1B
County: London
District: City of Westminster
Electoral Ward/Division: Marylebone High Street
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: City of Westminster
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Marylebone
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Building
CITY OF WESTMINSTER PORTLAND PLACE,Wl
TQ 2881 NE
45/40 (west side)
Nos 41 to 47 (odd)
10.9.54
G.V. II*
Large terraced 1st rate town houses. 1776-c1780 by James Adam, as a speculative
development with his brothers and John Elwes. Stock brick with channelled
stucco ground floors; slate roofs. Astylar elevations designed as part of a
symmetrical block with Nos 29 to 35 (odd) q.v. of which the centrepiece has
been rebuilt. 4 storeys including added attic storey (that of No 47 further
heightened) on basements. 3-window wide fronts, No 47 with long return to
Weymouth Street. Broad semicircular arched doorways adjoining to each pair;
panelled double doors, side lights in pannelled and enriched jambs with ram's
head cornice doorheads and fanlight overall. Recessed sashes, under flat gauged
arches to upper floors. Plat band finishing off ground floor stuccowork;
moulded stucco band over 1st floor and main cornice over 2nd floor; attic
cornice and blocking course, No 43 with balustraded parapet. Continuous cast
iron Grecian and scrolled balconies to 1st floor. Cast iron area railings with
urn or plumbed spike finials. Nos 43 and 45 retain interiors with fine Adam
features, delicate plasterwork, some inset panels and medallions, statuary
marble chimneypieces; stone geometrical staircases with wrought or cast iron
anthemion and panel balustrades; etc. No 47 has LCC plaque commemorating
residence of Field Marshal Lord Roberts from 1901 to 1906.
Listing NGR: TQ2873881833
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