Description

TQ 2882 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER DEVONSHIRE MEWS WEST,
35/40 W1

No. 13

G.V. II

Mews building. c.1780 mews building to No. 13 Devonshire Place q.v. and
with original "polite" west front designed to be seen from the house; mews
front rebuilt early C.20. Stucco, slate roof. Front to mews
neo-Georgian, original west front has elegant tetrastyle neo-classical
composition. 2 storeys. 3 windows wide with slightly advanced pedimented
centre bay. Semicircular arched ground floor windows with patterned
radial fanlights and margin lights flanking central French window, all in
rusticated surrounds with voussoirs to arches. 1st floor has square
headed glazing bar sashes recessed in architrave surrounds flanking
central sunk panel bearing coat of arms. The whole is articulated by a
Corinthian order with corner pilasters and central pairs of engaged
columns, on pedestals, carrying entablature with fluted frieze and
cornice; the advanced centre pedimented and with swag enrichment to the
entablature frieze; 1st floor guilloche band to each bay.

Listing NGR: TQ2848282020

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26319779

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)