43-55, LANCASTER GATE W2

A grand terrace of houses located on Lancaster Gate, built in 1865 by John Johnson. The terrace comprises numbers 43 to 55 and is constructed of stucco with a slate mansard roof. The buildings are four storeys high with an attic mansard, and an additional full attic storey is present at numbers 53 and 54. Each house is three windows wide. The ground floors are rusticated and treated as pilasters to numbers 52 and 53, with paired, projecting Doric porches featuring rusticated columns. A balustraded balcony is situated on the first floor. Most windows are square-headed, except those on the first floor, which are round-headed and feature Ionic columns to the centre window and a segmental pediment over at numbers 52 and 53. The windows have plate glass sashes. Dentil cornices are located above the first-floor windows, projecting over them. Cornices also feature above the second-floor windows. There are architraves and a rich frieze and console cornice above the third-floor windows. A subsidiary cornice leads to a balustraded parapet on numbers 52 and 53, incorporating arched dormers. Number 55 has a return to the right. The terrace is similar to numbers 23 to 35 (listed separately) and is an integral part of the planned layout of Lancaster Gate.