Description

TQ 2981 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER NASSAU STREET W1
(west side)

46/25 No 23
10.9.54
- II

Terrace house. c1770-80. Brown brick with rusticated stucco ground
floor, slate roof. 4 storeys. 3 windows wide. Entrance to left with
fine wooden doorcase of engaged Doric columns, triglyph dosserets and
mutule pediment, framing 6-panel door with fanlight; rustication struck to
ground floor flat window arches. Upper floors have recessed sashes, no
glazing bars, under flat gauged arches. Parapet with coping. Interior
has plain panelled ground and 1st floor front rooms with fluted friezes
and sharply profiled cornices; geometrical staircase with enriched S pattern
wrought iron balusters, etc ... No 23 was the residence of James Rennell,
geographer, in 1792 (GLC plaque). The doorcase, of superior quality in its
proportions, would seem to relate to the, now demolished, contemporary houses
by Chambers in Berners Street.

Listing NGR: TQ2922381607

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27083388

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)