108-136, WESTBOURNE TERRACE

This is a grand terrace of houses located in Westbourne Terrace, dating to approximately 1840. It was likely designed by William King and William Kingdom and is constructed of stucco. The terrace comprises four storeys, with some attic mansards. The central five houses and the houses at each end project slightly and feature rusticated quoins. The ground floor is channelled. Each house is two windows wide, and originally included projecting porches with Greek Doric columns. The front doors have panel detailing. A continuous bombé balcony runs along the first floor, originally with pediments at each window but these have largely been removed and are now flanked by fluted Corinthian columns. The second-floor windows have cornices. Most of the windows are sash windows with plate glass, and they are all architraved above the ground floor. A decorative guilloche band runs above the second floor. The terrace has a rich dentil cornice above the third floor, which is slightly simplified in the attic section, along with a subsidiary cornice to the attic. Cast iron area railings are present. The returns to the left and right include two-storey semicircular bow windows. The terrace forms an integral part of a larger architectural scheme for Westbourne Terrace.