Numbers 25-35 And 35A And Attached Screen To Sicilian Avenue

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TQ3081NW SOUTHAMPTON ROW 798-1/100/1480 (West side) 14/05/74 Nos.25-35 AND 35A (Odd) and attached screen to Sicilian Avenue

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Shopping parade with offices, formerly flats, over, forming the north-east return to Sicilian Avenue (qv). 1906-10. By RJ Worley. For the Bedford Estate. Red brick with white terracotta dressings and 1st floor. EXTERIOR: 5 storeys 8-window bays plus a 4-storey tourelle, with 2 light transom and mullion windows, from 2nd floor level on the left hand return to Sicilian Avenue. Ground floor with later C20 shopfronts separated by Corinthian columns on plinths carrying an entablature with plain terracotta frieze at 2nd floor level. Pilasters at angles. 1st floor with square-headed 4-light casement windows. 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors some canted 5-light bay windows and some groups of square-headed windows, all with terracotta transoms and mullions. All windows with small, leaded panes, some with shields. Central pedimented gable with, to either side oriels rising from the 3rd floor. Modillion cornice. The 4th storey of the tourelle is above the cornice and topped with a conical roof. INTERIORS: not inspected. Attached to No.25 is a Classical screen across Sicilian Avenue. 3 Ionic columns on plinths carrying an entablature with the words "Sicilian Avenue" on the frieze, surmounted by a balustrade with urns on the 2 central piers. Nos 25-35 (odd) and 35A Southampton Row form a homogeneous development with Nos 1-29 (odd) and 6-20 (even) Sicilian Avenue (qqv), Nos 15-23 (odd) Southampton Row (qv) and Nos 1-6 (consec) Vernon Place (qv). (Harwood E and Saint A: Exploring England's Heritage, London: -1991: 121-22).

Listing NGR: TQ3045681639