1-21, Grosvenor Gardens, Screen Wall And Gateway To Beeston Place

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TQ 2879 SE 98/16

CITY OF WESTMINSTER, GROSVENOR GARDENS (east side), SW1, Nos 1 to 21 (odd) including screen wall and gateway to Beeston Place

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Grand terrace of houses. Circa 1868. Thomas Cundy III. Portland stone, shaped slates to tall mansards. French Renaissance style. Nos 1, 9 and 17 set forward slightly with rusticated quoins and taller mansards, that to No 9 curved. 4 storeys, attic mansards and basement. Each house 5 windows wide (No 17 of 4 windows wide). Projecting Corinthian porches with inset arches. Channelling to ground floors. First floor balustraded balcony. Corinthian order to first floor between windows. Square headed windows to ground and first floor, round headed to second floor and segmental to third floor. Segmental pediments to dormers with paired arched windows beneath. Rich modillion cornice above third floor. Slab chimneys, polychromed. Wrought iron cresting to roof. Balustraded areas. No 19 of slightly different design with rounded corner and return to Beeston Place; paired Doric columns to ground floor, paired superimposed pilaster orders above, Ionic Corinthian and Composite; tall mansard spire.

Listing NGR: TQ2876679275