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Number 24 and Attached Railings

A Grade II Listed Building in City of Westminster, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5113 / 51°30'40"N

Longitude: -0.1563 / 0°9'22"W

OS Eastings: 528037

OS Northings: 180767

OS Grid: TQ280807

Mapcode National: GBR 9D.2D

Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.78QR

Plus Code: 9C3XGR6V+GF

Entry Name: Number 24 and Attached Railings

Listing Date: 15 February 1991

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1248459

English Heritage Legacy ID: 430066

ID on this website: 101248459

Location: Mayfair, Westminster, London, W1K

County: London

District: City of Westminster

Electoral Ward/Division: West End

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: City of Westminster

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: St George, Hanover Square

Church of England Diocese: London

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Description


TQ 2880 NW UPPER BROOK STREET

68/104 No 24 and attached
railings

II GV

Terraced town house, now offices. c1742 origin, refronted c1850 by Thomas Cundy II,
top storey added c1880, portico 1889 by Goldie, Child and Goldie. Ground floor bay
window by R Selden Wornum who may have been involved in the Jacobethan interior
remodelling for Sydney Ernest Kennedy probably c1906-7. Yellow stock brick with
stucco dressings. Tiled mansard roof with pedimented dormers. Four storeys, attic
and basement. Three windows. Projecting portico of paired Ionic columns supporting
an entablature surmounted by scrolled pediment with festoon, behind which a
balustraded balcony to first floor window. Canted bay transom and mullion ground
floor window. Upper floors with architraved casements; first floor with console
bracketted cornices and continuous bracketted sill band. Subsidiary cornice at
third floor level; main, projecting cornice and blocking course above third floor.
Attached cast iron railings to areas. Jacobethan style interior, unusual for
Mayfair; first floor drawing room in French style. Decoration originally more
elaborate. Features include hall with distyle in antis Corinthian screen supporting
4-centred arch; good quality carved Jacobethan and Flemish panelling including
portrait medallions (some possibly old); timber dog leg stair in C17 style with
turned balusters and panelled dado to second floor with landing; rear servants stair
to top floors. Ground floor rooms with Venetian Renaissance style fireplaces, that
in front room composition reproduction, rear room possible original marble with old
fireback. Upper floors plainer but with fine classically enriched dividing wall to
first floor with double doors.


Listing NGR: TQ2803780767

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