Description

TQ 3079 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER GREAT PETER STREET,
101/47 SWl
Corner House
(Including No. 11
Cowley Street and 8 Little
College Street)
G.V. II
A pair of town houses on corner site. 1911 by Edwin Lutyens for
Lady Norman and Hon. F. Maclaren. Fine red brick with sparing Portland
stone dressings, tiled roof. Restrained neo-Georgian, carefully
proportioned but with the windows scaled up. 3 storeys and 2 tiers of
dormers in steep mansard. 9 windows wide with 4-window return to Little
College Street and 3-window return to Cowley Street with lower 2 storey
rear portion to north. Doorways almost adjoining to centre of Great Peter
Street front, stone architraves with plain keyblocks and cornices over.
Recessed glazing bar sashes under flat gauged arches. Stone plinth.
Prominent stone eaves cornice; close set sashed dormers with flat lead
roofs and cheeks. The pair holds an important site in relation to Cowley
Street.

Listing NGR: TQ3011979238

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27083870

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Recommended Books

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  Herefordshire (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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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)