Description

TQ 3079 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER PARLIAMENT STREET, SW1
92/29 (east side)
5.2.70 No 43
G.V. II*
Terraced town house. c1753. Grey stock brick, slate roof. 3 storeys, basement and
dormered mansard. 3 windows wide. Entrance to right with panelled door and fanlight
recessed in wooden doorcase of three-quarter Doric columns, dosserets and open
bracketed pediment, the Doric capitals returned in as architrave doorhead and
acting as imposts to archivolt with keystone. Recessed sashes under gauged flat
arches. Plat band and sill band compose 1st floor pseudo-pedestal. Stone cyma
recta modillion cornice and blocking course. Late C19 cast iron area railings.
Good interior with cut string staircase with rare Chinese Chippendale fretwork
balustrade, moulded cornices, doorcases and shutters and main rooms with fine
statuary marble chimneypieces probably by Sir Henry Cheere, etc. With No 44
(q.v.) the only surviving terrace house of the original Parliament Street
opened in 1749-50.
Survey of London: Vol X

Listing NGR: TQ3018579736

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17550416

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