Description

TQ 2881 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER HARLEY STREET, Wl
45/39 (East side)
No. 90A
G.V. II
House. 1912 by Sydney Tatchell, built facing Weymouth Street abutting the
wing of Tatchell's contemporary No. 90 Harley Street town house,qv.Portland
stone with channelled ground floor and rusticated quoins. Similar sharply
profiled linear classical details to No. 90 applied on a domestic pavilion
scale. 2 storeys and dormered mansard on basement. 5 windows wide
symmetrical front. Central porch (a reduced version of that of No. 90)
has deep set, splayed semicircular arched doorway with ornamental iron
balustrade above cornice. Recessed glazing bar sashes, those on 1st floor
(where the centre bay is slightly advanced) in eared architraves with
pulvinated frieze and cornices rising into main frieze and with apron
panels. Narrow lst floor plat band; fluted frieze and cornice with
balustraded parapet. Central triangular pedimented dormer flanked by
segmental pedimented ones. An ashlar single storey screen wall extends to
right. Ornamental cast iron area railings. This house is an example of
the Portland Estate's early C.20 attempt to reintroduce a domestic
character to an area that had become predominantly professional.

Listing NGR: TQ2864181835

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26319580

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