Description

TQ 2880 SW and 2880 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER SOUTH AUDLEY 79/11; 68/89 STREET, Wl 5.2.70 No 17A and Nos 17 to 22 (consec) (Messrs Goode). (Including Nos 35-35A South Street) G.V. II* Block of shop premises, flats and house. Nos.18-19 designed first in 1875 and extended in related composition up to 1891, by Ernest George and Peto for Messrs. Goode, china merchants. Red brick with much ornamental brickwork and tiled roofs. Picturesque design and the first by Ernest George in the new "Queen Anne" manner. 3 storeys and gabled attics. Groups of 3 windows under 4 irregular gables. Ground floor has continuous shop display windows set in Doric colonnade of polished pink granite columns. 3 doorways with console bracketed balustraded balconies set over them, backed on 1st floor by niches containing large porcelain vases, as designed. Wood mullioned and transomed windows to upper floors articulated in groups by brick pilasters and in the gabled attics by blind arcading. Richly carved frieze to main entablature and carved brickwork in gables. Returns, that to north canted to corner, have gables incorporating corbelled external chimney stacks with panelling and carved stylized sun flower motifs, panelled parapets. The eastern extension of north return incorporating No. 22 in plainer more strictly Queen Anne style. Main front has 4 small "oriel" balconies to 2nd floor with floral pattern good wrought ironwork and similar to balustrade over shop fronts and to area railings. Return to South Street has 1 storey wing stuccoed with blind arcade framing panels of Aesthetic-Japanese style ceramic tiles appropriate and original,as are the vases on the facade. The 3 storey 3 window wide stucco elevation beyond is a mid to late C.18 house incorporated at the time into Goode's premises. The shop interiors retain considerable elements of their 1870 and 80s features, partly Liberty fitted out: display shelves, cornices, mouldings etc. Survey of London; Vol. XL.

Listing NGR: TQ2841080480

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