9, Little College Street Sw1

TQ 3079 CITY OF WESTMINSTER LITTLE COLLEGE STREET, 101/46 SW1

5.2.70 No. 9

G.V. II*

Terrace house. c.1722 with c.1900 refacing to entrance front. Red brick with multi-coloured stock brick rear elevation to Cowley Street, tiled roof. Sympathetic c.1900 refacing, original brickwork to rear. 3 storeys, basement and dormered mansard. 5 windows wide with 1 window coved corner treatment to 2nd floor and attic on right hand angle. Central entrance with panelled door and square headed fanlight, in wooden architrave doorcase, with flanking strips ornamented by lion-head foliated drops, console-brackets to entablature with pulvinated frieze, dentil cornice and broken pediment; panel below entablature has satyr mask and swags. Nearly flush framed glazing bar sashes in exposed boxing under flat gauged red brick arches, those on ground floor with block keystones. Brick plat band to 1st floor and brick band below parapet with coping. Rear to Cowley Street also 5 windows wide. Nearly flush framed glazing bar sashes under segmental red brick arches. Stuccoed plat bands to each floor and parapet with coping. Cast iron area railings with flambé torch finials. Interior retains panelling and boxed and bracketed cornices and good cut and carved string staircase with grouped balusters, ramped handrail, etc. The rear elevation contributes to the exceptionally well preserved early C.18 housing in Barton, Cowley, and Lord North Streets q.v.

Listing NGR: TQ3011579254