Description

TQ 2781 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER GREAT CUMBERLAND PLACE, Wl
54/38
Nos. 53 and 55
G.V. II
Terraced town houses. c.1811-20 Portman Estate development, associated
with J. Parkinson's Bryanston Square. Stock brick with channelled stucco
ground floors; concealed slate roofs. 5 storeys and basements. Each 3
windows wide. Semicircular arched doorways to left, No. 53 retaining
panelled door and fanlight, No. 55 altered. Recessed sash windows, under
flat gauged arches (of red brick to No. 55) on upper floors; No. 53 has mid
C.19, channelled stucco canted bay, replacing central and right hand
windows, from ground to 2nd floor, finishing with cornice and blocking
course. Crowning dentil cornice and blocking course to both fronts.
Original, cast iron, geometric patterned 1st floor balconies. Cast iron
area spear head railings with urn finials. Nos. 53 and 55 are of the same
build as Nos 57 to 63 (odd) (qv) with cornice carried through, etc. Included
for group value only.

Listing NGR: TQ2773281297

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26319643

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)