Description

TQ 2880 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER BERKELEY SQUARE W1 69/21 (west side) 24.2.58 No 44 GV I

Town house 1742-44 by William Kent for Lady Isabella Finch. Brown brick. Three storeys basement and later dormers. Three windows, symmetrical. Ground floor rusticated stone quoins and boldly rusticated stone and to recessed entrance. Stone architraves to piano nobile and second floor, those on first floor with pediments, the central one on consoles, and with blind balustrades linked by flat band. Bracketed stone cornice beneath dormers. Wrought iron railings and overthrow with link extinguishers and lampholders. Magnificent interiors to both main floors in particular baroque spatial handling of spectacular staircase. First floor bedroom and boudoir to rear redecorated late C18 probably by Henry Holland. Restored/redecorated 1963 by John Fowler, consulting architect Philip Jebb, who are responsible for the Gothick corridor flanking garden and the garden pavilion. Part of best surviving terrace of town houses in square and with interior of exceptional quality.

Listing NGR: TQ2871480555

External Links

• Annabel's at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q4767666

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)