Description

TQ 2881 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER HARLEY STREET, Wl
45/44 (East side)
10.9.54 No. 86
G.V. II
Terraced town house, c.1774-76 Portland Estate development, by John White
in partnership with the plasterer Thomas Collins (associates of
Sir William Chambers). Stock brick with channelled stucco ground floor;
slate roof. 4 storeys and basement. 3-window wide astylar front. Broad
semicircular arched doorway to right with rusticated surround and Coade
head keystone; panelled door, sidelights, moulded doorhead and fanlight
with radial swag pattern. Recessed sashes, under flat gauged arches to
upper floors. 1st floor plat band. Parapet with coping. Continuous
early to mid C.19 cast iron patterned balcony to 1st floor. Cast iron
plumbed spike area railings. Bowed rear elevation and canted wing.
Interior retains some good original features though with later
alterations; geometrical top lit stone staircases with wrought iron lyre
and anthemion pattern balustrade; flute and patera friezes, some ceilings
with wreathed panels and stucco mythological relief medallions with swag
and ribbon framing over chimneypieces; these are of inlaid marble with
pilasters or columns, the ground floor front room chimneypiece of No. 86
with Rococo surround probably reset; etc ; all features common to these
speculative 1st rate houses of the 1770s in Harley Street.

Listing NGR: TQ2863481790

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27084715

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