5, Clifford Street W1

TQ 2980 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER CLIFFORD STREET W1 70/36 No 5 24.2.58 GV II

Terrace house, 1719 by John Witt. Yellow and red brick, slate roof. 4 storeys and basement. 3 windows wide. Entrance to left, arched wooden doorcase with semicircular fanlight flanked by Doric pilasters with entablature over. Revealed sash windows, no glazing bars, have segmental red brick arches and dressings, panelled aprons and C19 bracketed sills. Bold string course over ground floor and cornice over 2nd floor; parapet with coping. Party wall giant pilaster surmounted by urn shared with No 4 q.v. The interior retains panelled hall with pilastered arch to staircase, the latter fine carpenter's work with carved cut strings and turned and twisted balusters, fluted Corinthian column newels and moulded handrail, simplified with closed string above 2nd floor, panelled dado and walls, doorcases etc. Ground floor rear room fully ovolo panelled, otherwise plain early to mid C19 interior features.

Survey of London; vol XXXII

Listing NGR: TQ2905780771