Description

TQ 2880 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER GRAFTON STREET Wl
69/71
Nos 3 to 6 (consecutive)
24.2.58 including No 10 Bruton
GV Lane
I
Exceptional group of very large terraced houses. c.1760-72 by Sir Robert Taylor.
Brown brick, some painted, slate roofs. Four tall storeys and basements, 4, 4, 3 and
5 windows widely spaced and with high piano nobile. Main stone cornice over second
floor, cornice and blocking course to parapet. Plat band and sill band to first
floor. Revealed glazing bar sashes, flat gauged arches. First floor wrought iron
balconies. Unusually massive Tuscan column stone doorways with pediments. Wrought
iron area railings with lamp standards to Nos 3 and 5. Very fine interiors
characterised by spacious staircases in apsed top lit wells, set to rear behind column
screens. No 6 has tunnel vaulted entrance hall and staircase at right angles. The
grand staircase of No 3 a c.1904 alteration for Mr Arthur James. All interiors retain
fine plasterwork ceilings with inset paintings etc. No 4 was Lord Brougham's from
1840-68.
Georgian London; J Summerso
London Vol I, N Pevsner

Listing NGR: TQ2891180604

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17527401

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