Description

TQ 2980 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER ALBANY (Piccadilly) W1

70/11 Melbourne House
24.2.58 (A1 to A15)
GV
I

Town Mansion, 1771-76 by Sir William Chambers, altered by Henry
Holland 1802-03. Brown brick, slate roof. 3 storeys and basement,
and dormered attic. 7 bay front in rhythm 2:3:2, the centre 3
bays pedimented. Central stone Tuscan columned porch. Basement
windows with keystone reaching up to plat band at ground floor level;
semi-circular arched ground floor windows in similarly arched
recesses with keystones reaching up to first floor plat band and
moulded string courses at impost level with arcade effect; windows
on upper floors with architraves, those on piano nobile with cornices
and the central window pedimented - all windows revealed sashes
without glazing bars. 1st floor sill course, crowning cornice and
blocking course. 2 shallow bows flank rear elevation. Interior
retains Chambers' flying stone staircase with wrought iron
balustrade and the right hand rear room on 1st floor retains
a plaster ceiling to his design. Otherwise altered as apartments
by Holland and subsequently. Rare survival of town mansion.

Survey of London: vol XXXI
Sir William Chambers, John Harris

Listing NGR: TQ2926380548

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17527423

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Old House Care and Repair