Description

TQ 3079 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER BARTON STREET, SW1 101/40 24.2.58 Nos. 4 to 6 (consec. )

G.V. II*

Terraced houses. c.1722 with some early C.20 alteration and extension to return of No. 6. Brown brick with red brick window dressings, No. 6 with stuccoed ground floor; tiled roofs. 3 storeys, basements and dormered mansards. Each front 3 windows wide and No. 6 with 2 window return and further wing to Cowley Street. Left hand doorways to Nos. 4 and 6, right hand doorway to No. 5 - that of No. 4 with fluted and panelled pilasters and pediment; that of No. 5 with plain wooden doorcase and hood; that of No. 6 with architrave case and pedimented hood on consoles. Recessed sashes, some with renewed glazing bars, under flat gauged arches; painted timber lintel across ground floor window heads of Nos. 4 and 5. Brick plat bands between storeys and below parapet. Wrought iron area railings. No. 5 has cornet rainwater head and lead down-pipe. The return of No. 6 has blind window bay next to corner and is extended by partly rebuilt 3-window wing of same height with box framed glazing bar sashes under segmental gauged arches and has broad architrave-framed opening to left of ground floor with set back panelled door and basement entrance. Set in the wall by corner is a stone tablet inscribed "Cowley Street, 1722". On the corner a wrought iron lamp bracket. Part of an exceptionally well preserved early C.18 enclave of housing together with Cowley and Lord North Streets q.v.

Listing NGR: TQ3006779266

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Old House Care and Repair