19, Curzon Street W1

TQ 2880 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER CURZON STREET, W1 79/54 24.2.58 No. 19

G.V. II

Terraced town house. c. 1750-60. Brown brick, slate roof. 4 storeys, basement and dormered mansard. 3 windows wide. Doorway to left with panelled door and fanlight in architrave case flanked by engaged Ionic columns supporting dentil pediment. Stucco architraves to recessed sash windows, those on 1st floor with pulvinated friezes and cornices may be original painted stone. 1st floor plat band and sill band and moulded painted stone cornice over 2nd floor. Parapet with coping. Wrought iron area railings with pine-cone finials and scrollwork lampholders. Residence of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield from 1880 to his death in 1881 (L.C.C. plaque). Interior considerably altered but retains wrought iron scrollwork balustrade to staircase, panelled shutters and doorcases to 1st floor front room and some of cornices. Work executed at "No. 19" by Soane in 1802 but nothing appears to remain and the reference may be to No. 18 consequent on renumbering - see hall of No. 18 q.v.

Listing NGR: TQ2845980206