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

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