5-7, Chesterfield Gardens W1

Nos. 5 to 7 Chesterfield Gardens are a large terrace of houses built in 1876 by J. T. Wimperis. The houses are constructed of Portland ashlar with slate roofs and feature Beaux Arts and Renaissance detailing. They are four storeys high, with a basement and steep, dormered mansards. Each house has two windows.

The ground floor is channelled and features a colonnaded, archivolt arched porch. Canted bay windows are present to the basement, ground, and first floors, with a full-height bay to No. 6. The first and third floors have semi-circular arched windows; the second-floor windows have architraves with cornices and plate glass sashes. A dentil cornice sits over the first floor, a plat band defines the third floor, and there’s a sill course and bracketed top cornice with a balustrade. The stone dormers are segmental pedimented over the bay windows and have side lights, while those over the entrance bays are straight pedimented. No. 6 has an additional fifth attic storey with a loggia and pavilion roof. A continuous, ornate, cast iron bracketed balcony runs along the first floor. The pavilion roof of No. 6 has a cast iron balustrade, and ornate cast iron area railings are present.

The interiors feature long, straight, cantilevered stone staircases with ornamental cast iron balustrades, and good quality door and window woodwork. No. 5 includes refurbished, reproduction 17th and 18th century style plasterwork and one or two crisply carved fireplaces. No. 7 has its principal areas lined in marble, mostly to a heavy effect, with some lighter reproduction 18th century work above.