36, Soho Square W1

TQ 2981 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER SOHO SQUARE, W1 58/22 24.2.58 No. 36 GV II Terrace house. c.1680, refaced late C18 when most of interior was refitted. Painted brick with stucco ground floor, slate roof. 4 storeys and basement (top floor probably late c18 with refronting). 3 windows wide. Ground floor has doorway to right with panelled door, narrow side lights and patterned semicircular fanlight overall; 2 ground floor sash windows altered late C19. Upper floors have recessed sashes, with C19 glazing, under flat gauged arches. 1st floor sill band; parapet with coping. Ornamental wrought iron bowed balconettes to 1st floor. Interior retains a number of features: simple early C19 geometric staircase, the compartment ceiling with large oval skylight; remains of late C18 Doric column screen between ground floor rooms, the front one with good, inlaid marble, later C19, consoled chimneypiece, and slightly later carved wooden chimneypiece to rear room with arabesque and putti frieze; late C18, carved, Grecian, marble chimneypiece in right hand front room on 2nd floor probably reset from 1st floor, etc. Survey of London; Vol. XXXIII.

Listing NGR: TQ2964681202