80-90 Gloucester Place W1 / 118 Crawford Street W1

Description

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

TQ 2781 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER GLOUCESTER PLACE, Wl 43/61 (East side) 14,1.70 Nos. 80 to 90 (even) (including No 118 Crawford G.V. Street) II Terraced town houses. c.1800 Portman Estate development. Stock brick with stucco banded rustication to ground floors; slate roofs, mostly concealed.

4 storeys and basements, some with 5th floors or dormered mansards.

3-window wide fronts. Semicircular arched doorways to right, containing panelled doors with side lights, pilastered jambs and Coade imposts under delicately patterned fanlights with lead ornament; No. 84 has Coade vermiculated rustic blocks and voussoirs with figured keystone. Recessed sashes, some with glazing bars, under flat gauged arches to upper floors.

Plat band over ground floor stuccowork; stucco crowning cornices and blocking courses. Original, cast iron, geometric and anthemion pattern balconies to 1st floor. Cast iron area railings with urn finials. Part of one of the most extensive and intact sequences of Georgian terraced houses in London.

Listing NGR: TQ2786181696

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1656 IOE Records taken by Anthony Rau; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Anthony Rau. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project