Description

GREAT BEDFORD STREET
(West side)

No.4 and attached railings (Formerly Listed
as: GREAT BEDFORD STREET Nos.1-4 (Consec))
12/06/50

GV II

Terrace house. c1790-1793 with C19 alteration. By John Palmer.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to front, render and ashlar to right side, ashlar and rubble to rear. Welsh slate double pile parapeted mansard roof with coped party walls to left and right. Two stacks in ashlar and brick to left, ashlar axial stack to rear.
PLAN: House is on corner of Great Bedford Street and Park Street Mews, staircase to rear.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, three-window range. First floor has three six/nine sashes in plain reveals with wrought iron balconettes. Second floor has three six/six sashes in plain reveals with stone sills, to left and centre with simple iron guards. Ground floor has two six/six sashes in splayed reveals with stone sills to left. To right six-panel door with reeded, fielded and glazed panels with brass plate with incised characters No. 4, in pedimented Doric doorcase. One step to pennant paved crossover with cast iron footscraper. Basement has two six/six sashes in plain reveals with continuous stone sill. Plank door with overlight and small window in ashlar infilling under crossover, no area steps. Double dormer with plate glass horned sashes in moulded architraves. Band course over ground floor, sill band to first floor, frieze, moulded eaves cornice and coped parapet. Sun Fire Insurance plate to first floor centre right. Wrought iron lamp bracket attached to right angle over ground floor. Right side has two small four-pane windows at half basement level in ashlar extension to rear. Two six/six sashes in plain reveals at first half landing level. One in extension to rear, small C19 window at second floor level with coloured border glazing. Upper mouldings of eaves cornice continued from front. Rear elevation retains early six/six sashes, including early one and a half storey ashlar extension.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached wrought iron railings with cast shaped heads on limestone bases, to right of front door with urn finial.
HISTORY: Part of incomplete St James¿s Square development on land leased by Fielder, King, Hewlett and Broom from Sir Peter Rivers Gay 25 March 1790; Great Bedford Street forms one of the four diagonal approaches to St James's Square; it was intended to continue to NE but never completed. Nos. 7-11 were destroyed by bombing in 1942.
SOURCES: (Abstract of title of Sir J F Rivers ... to property sold 1856: DEED PKT 2379 & MAPS; Harcourt Masters' map 1794 and 1808; City Engineer's Survey of Air Raid Damage 1942).

Listing NGR: ST7452465704

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q66480503

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