10, De Vere Gardens

The following building shall be added:

TQ 2679 NW DE VERE GARDENS (west side) 249-/32/10040 No. 10

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Terrace house. Built c.1875-8 by Taylor and Cumming, builders, to an overall scheme by Charles Edward Barlow. Main interiors recast c.1904 in Wrenaissance style by J Leonard Williams for Captain C A Osbourne; carving and plasterwork by Laurence Turner; marblework by Farmer and Brindley. Facade oftype common to houses ofDe Vere Gardens. Five main storeys plus basement. Grey bricks with stucco dressings and surrounds. Iron balconies. Italianate facade with bay window and projecting porch (paired with No. 8) on ground storey; tripartite windows on first and second storeys with vertical and triangular pediments respectively; three windows with keystones on the second and third storeys, heavy bracketted and dentilled cornice between upper: storeys and deep crowning cornice at top. Windows have Georgian-style fenestration pattern, probably Edwardian. Interior of exceptional and lavish quality. Entrance corridor, panelled and vaulted in plaster, leads to inner hall which has high cove bearing ornamental plasterwork, painted panelling and marble fireplace. Stone main staircase basically of 1870s, with cast-iron balustrade, but with lowest flight of steps turned with S-shaped iron balustrade and two pairs of marble columns of French jasper at foot, Edwardian. Ground floor has former dining room in front, with marble floor margins, painted panelling, ornamental cornice and elaborate overmantel and door surrounds, both with segmental broken pediments. At rear, former library, with painted panelling and built-in bookcase. First floor with double drawing room occupying whole floor. Rich plaster ceilings, fluted Corinthian columns at intervals round walls, painted panelling with ornamental overmantel and Pavonazzo marble surround to fireplace. Listed as rare example ofmid-Victorian town house surviving with high-class Edwardian reception rooms, little altered. Source: Survey of London, vol.42, 1986, pp.124, 127

Listing NGR: TQ2604979580