15 Upper Grosvenor Street W1

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

TQ 2880 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER UPPER GROSVENOR 68/69 STREET, Wl No. 15 G.V. II Terraced town house. 1732, heightened early C.19, with front receiving Thomas Cundy II dressing up 1863-64. Painted brick with stucco and stone dressings, slate roof. 4 storeys, basement and dormered mansard. 3 windows wide, the front framed by rusticated quoin pilasters. Entrance to right with Doric portico-porch.

Recessed sash windows in stucco architraves, those on 1st floor with cornices over. Stucco string courses and plat bands; stucco crowning cornice with blocking course. Stone balustered balconettes to 1st floor windows. Cast iron area railings. Interior retains a number of original C.18 features,in particular the panelled ground floor front room with modillion cornice and chimneypiece; c.1800-20 staircase with stone treads and S pattern iron balustrade with anthemion ornament rising to 1st floor only but not in original front compartment, early C.19 rebuilt secondary stair from 1st floor; other rooms with ornate Victorian and Edwardian decoration but the 2 1st floor front rooms retain good early C.19 marble chimneypieces, that of the main room decorated with sphinxes in the Directoire-Empire taste.

Survey of London; Vol. XL.

Listing NGR: TQ2812780698

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/1551 IOE Records taken by Jamie Pearson; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Jamie Pearson. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project