Description

3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER KING STREET, WC2
72/30
15.1.73 Nos. 31 and 32
G.V. II
Pair of terrace houses. c.1707 (No. 31 rebuilt after fire in 1713),
refaced c.1860 by Nelson and Innes with the Duke of Bedford's Surveyor
Charles Parker as consultant. Stucco, slate roof. Eclectic Italianate
detailing. 4 storeys. Each 3 windows wide. Ground floor with mid C.20
frontages. Upper floors have architraved sashes, those on 1st and 2nd
floors with bracketed cornices on consoles. Channelled quoin pilasters,
sill courses, frieze and moulded cornice carried on consoles capping, the
quoin pilasters, parapet. Interiors retain early C.18 features with closed
string dog leg staircase to No. 32 with 2 twisted balusters per tread and
stout baluster turned newels, moulded handrail, elements of panelling and
box cornices, No. 31 with small simply panelled closets to 1st and 2nd
floors with angle fireplaces. No. 31 has associations with the composer
Dr. Thomas Arne.
Survey of London; Vol. XXXVI.

Listing NGR: TQ3021280850

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27083663

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)