Description

TQ 2880 NW and NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER CARLOS PLACE W1
69/63; 68/2
Connaught Hotel
GV
II

Built as the Coburg Hotel. 1894-96 by Lewis Isaacs and H L Florence. Red brick with
lavish stone dressings, slate roof. Free Jacobean-Renaissance style. Five storeys,
basement and gabled attics with later dormers inserted. Four bay pavilions to Carlos
Place and to Mount Street and wide slightly recessed quadrant centre block of 11 bays
to corner. Stone mullioned-transomed flat arched windows, with sash lights, stone
panelled aprons. Balustraded stone entrance porch with early C20 projecting iron and
glass canopy. Four storey canted stone mullioned bay window, with balustraded parapet,
terminating Carlos Place pavilion. Band courses and sill courses and above main course
sections of balustrade between dormers and gables. Heavy balustraded and bracketed
balconies on first and second floors. Stone area parapet pierced with sections of
balustrading. Part of the 1880s-90s rebuilding of Mount Street for the Grosvenor
Estate. Prominent corner site.

Survey of London Vol XL.

Listing NGR: TQ2849480654

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Connaught at Wikipedia
• The Connaught official website
• Wikidata Q1032325

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)