Description

TQ 2880 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER BERKELEY SQUARE W1
69/23 (south west side)

9.1.70 No 47

GV II*

House. 1750 overhauled in 1891 by George and Peto. Portland stone. Refaced in an
early Italian Renaissance style. Four storeys, basement and slated mansard with
dormers. Four windows. Ground floor with 2 arched openings, entrance to right with
crisply carved low relief decoration to pilasters and entablature; iron grille to the
small square-headed window to its right. First floor windows with similarly decorated
pilasters and alternate semicircular and triangular pediments, those to left with small
balconies, those to right with simple balustrades. Second floor windows pilastered
with cornices. Entablature with carved frieze of putti and swags at third floor
level. Area railings original to C18 house with wrought iron lampstandards. Interior
fitted out in Renaissance style with chimney pieces and panelling. Original stone open
string staircase to piano nobile, stone treads with bracket ends and fine wrought iron
balustrade scrolled down to foot with gilded ramshead. Part of best remaining terrace
of town houses in the square.

Listing NGR: TQ2874680536

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17550694

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)