24, South Street W1

TQ 2880 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER SOUTH STREET, Wl 79/19 (south side) 5.2.70 No.24 G.V. II Terraced town house. c.1834 and almost certainly by Gandy Deering, as the design with No. 22 was identical to his Nos. 14 to 18 (all now demolished). Painted brick with channelled stucco ground floor, slate roof. Monumental and austere "first rate" elevation with sparse Greek Revival basement to porch. 3 main lofty storeys with ground floor raised up on. asement, tall attic storey and dormered mansard. Severe prostyle stucco Doric piered porch to left at head of steps, square headed door with fanlight and side lights. Recessed sash windows with glazing bars with plat band carried across heads on ground floor and stucco continued as parapet applied to 1st floor with the coping as sill course to 1st floor windows; these and those above have glazing bar sashes recessed under flat gauged arches. Stone cornice and stucco frieze over 2nd floor and cornice coping to sheer attic storey. Cast iron window guards to 1st floor. Cast iron area railings with acorn finials. Original lead rainwater head. Rear elevation bowed. Very lofty interiors, two stone staircases with cast iron balustrades; simple Greek mouldings etc. Survey of London; Vol. XL.

Listing NGR: TQ2833880416