56, Queen Anne Street W1

No. 56 Queen Anne Street is a terraced town house dating from the 1760s, with some early to mid-19th century alterations, part of the Portland Estate development. The building is constructed of red brick with a rusticated stucco ground floor and has four storeys, including a stock brick attic storey, built over a basement. It features four windows across its façade.

The entrance is marked by a semicircular arched doorway located in the second bay from the left, which has vermiculated rustications extending into concave reveals. The door is panelled and topped with a radial fanlight that includes an inset lantern. A delicate cast iron porch, dating from the early to mid-19th century, has a trellis spandrel supported by slender cast iron columns.

The ground floor windows are recessed sashes with vermiculated keystones, while the first floor has recessed French windows, the second floor features sash windows, and the attic has casement windows. All these windows are set under flat gauged arches with stuccoed reveals. A plat band finishes the ground floor stuccowork, and there is a painted stone moulded cornice above the second floor, leading to a parapet with coping.

The first floor is adorned with an early to mid-19th century cast iron balcony featuring a loop pattern, supported on console brackets that extend over the porch. The second floor has geometric patterned cast iron balconettes. The area railings are topped with foliated pommel finials, and there is a corner rainwater head on the right side.

Inside, the house retains some fine plasterwork from the 1760s, along with early 19th century mouldings, a stone geometrical staircase with a wrought iron balustrade, and marble chimneypieces.