Powis House And Attached Railings

CAMDEN

TQ3081SE LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS 798-1/106/1063 (South side) 24/10/51 No.66 Powis House and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS Nos.65 AND 66)

GV II*

House. c1685. Designed by William Winde. For the Marquis of Powis. Craftsman, A Jordan. Exterior rebuilt by Lutyens c1930 following C17 style. Interior from c1772 when the house was divided into two parts, probably by Thomas Leverton. Brown brick, red brick and stone dressings with rusticated stone quoins. Stone semi-basement, bands to each floor, dentil and modillion cornice. Tiled hipped roof with pedimented dormers and stone dressed chimney-stacks. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, attic and semi-basement. 7 windows with projecting, central, pedimented 3 window bay. 2-leaf entrance doors with flanking rusticated pilasters carrying entablature with open pediment; approached by twin quadrant flights of steps with wrought-iron railings and overthrow lamp-holder. Gauged flat brick arches to slightly recessed sash windows with exposed boxing; centre second floor window with stone architrave surmounted by stone cherubs holding cartouche. Window above with stone architrave. North end of house returned over arcade of brick arches on pavement to Remnant Street. INTERIOR: good, with C19 open well staircase, panelled rooms, enriched doorcases and other features. Only internal feature which might date to C17 is the carved marble chimney piece on the second floor. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with urn finials to cobbled forecourt. (RCHME: London, Vol. II, West London: London: -1925: 59-60; Survey of London: Vol. III, St Giles-in-the-Fields, part I, Lincoln's Inn Fields: London: 1912: 110-118).