Description

UPPER BROOK STREET
TQ 2880 NW
68/103 No 22 and attached
railings
II
GV
Terraced town house, now offices. c1742 origin, refaced c1840, refurbished
internally and rear dining room added c1881 by R Fabian Russell (of Osborne &
Russell) for the Reverend Sir William Lionel Darell; some later alterations by
Gerald Horsley. Stucco, channelled at ground floor level. Slated mansard roof with
pedimented dormers. Four storeys, attic and basement. Three windows. Projecting
Doric portico with fluted columns and enriched frieze surmounted by 2 dies and an
elaborate cast iron balcony to the first floor windows. Ground floor shallow bay
window of 3 sashes. Architraved sashes to upper floors, first floor with console
bracketted cornices, second floor with cornices forming part of a continuous
subsidiary cornice.' Projecting cornice at eaves level. Attached cast iron railings
with spearhead finials to areas. Interior appears to retain some mid C18 panelling,
dado rails and cornices. Features included lobby with false mirrored doors and
'Corinthian pilasters (C18?) to hall proper, now partitioned on left wall with'
Jacobethan carved oak chimney piece and overmantle having female caryatids flanking
fireplace. Plaster Tudor type compartmentalised ceiling. Florid Jacobethan
staircase, set in front position, with pierced wooden balustrade of foliar design,
urns on newel posts, and panelled dado; proceeds to second floor via 2 stages of 14
and 13 with half landing. Ground floor front room with plain panelling, dado rail
and dentil cornice (C18?) and compartmentalised ceiling similar to hall. French
style marble fireplace with mask in frieze, mid C19. Rear dining room, now with
false ceiling, built to emulate Jacobean Great Hall with pilastered walls and coved
timber ceiling with beams forming compartments which are top lit. Curved ribs at
angles with carved male caryatid figures, other ribs with mask corbels. Believed to
retain similar chimney piece and overmantle to hall but with male caryatids behind
recent partitioning on north wall. First floor doors to stair'Cli 'in character but
cut out of larger and French style doors to the inside. Front room predominantly
Louis XIV style decor but_cornice may_be C18. Back room partitioned but in French
style with mirror frames and doors. to match. White carved marble fireplace with
festoons in frieze may be C18. Rear closet wing with coved cornice. Second floor
has plain C18 cornice over stairs and some original doors; back Stairs continue from
here. Bat&mw original closet wing.

Listing NGR: TQ2805380774

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27083686

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)