Description

TQ 2880 NW
68/6

CITY OF WESTMINSTER
DUKE STREET, W1
Nos 75 to 83 (odd)

14.1.70

GV
II
Terrace of purpose designed shops and flats. 1893-95 by W.D Caröe. Thin red bricks with moulded and carved brick dressings and Portland stone plinth, tiled roof. Effectively composed Free Style design with restrained use of Mannerist Carolean and Queen Anne details.

Three storeys, basement and high mansard with two tiers of attics. Five asymmetrical bays wide. Ground floor has irregularly arcaded shop fronts and doorways; off centre entrance to flats with a pair of lights, above brick door cornice, flanked by panelled brick pilasters and brick pediment over; shop fronts with transomed windows, two with segmental brick arches above ground floor cornice; No. 83 with corner entrance set behind stone column supporting upper floors to corner with elongated consoles. Upper floors have main window bays either flanked by panelled brick pilasters or as very shallow vertically linked rectangular bays with cornices and off centre brick pilastered niches, mullioned and transomed casements. Window bays carried up as corniced brick dormers and segmental pedimental dormers in upper tier. South return has large arch at upper level with pyramid roofed attic above, its windows divided by colonettes, and flanking square topped pavilions. Tall brick chimney stacks. Effective group with No. 85 and Nos. 1, 1A and 2 Dukes's Yard q.v.

Listing NGR: TQ2842780980

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27083930

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)