51, Wimpole Street W1

No. 51 Wimpole Street is a terraced town house built in the 1770s as part of the Portland Estate development, likely designed by John White. The building is constructed of stock brick with a channelled stucco ground floor and features a slate roof. It stands four storeys tall with a basement and has a three-window wide front that lacks stylistic ornamentation.

To the left, there is a broad semicircular arched doorway with stucco rustications, which includes a panelled door, side lights, and a patterned fanlight in a plain Venetian style. The ground floor has a tripartite stucco pilastered window from around 1900, complete with an entablature and set in antis. The upper floors feature recessed sash windows under flat gauged arches, and there is a plat band above the ground floor stuccowork. The building is topped with a parapet that has coping, and there is a scrolled cast iron Victorian balcony across the first floor. Wrought iron area railings with urn finials add to the exterior detail.

Inside, the house retains several notable features, including a geometrical staircase with a wrought iron balustrade, decorative plasterwork, and chimneypieces with statuary marble Ionic columns or pilasters.