20 And 21, St James'S Square Sw1

TQ 2980 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER ST. JAMES'S SQUARE SW1 81/103 Nos 20 and 21 24.2.58 GV I Terraced town houses. No 20 (comprising 3 northernmost bays) of 1771-75 by Robert Adam for Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, No 21 rebuilt very tactfully in 1936 by Mewls and Davis so as to duplicate the facade of No 20 and form one composition. Portland stone, slate roof. 4 storeys, basement and stone dormers in mansard of 1936. 7 windows wide. Rusticated ground floor with windows and doors each end in semicircular arched openings, doors with side lights and delicately patterned fanlights; glazing bar sashes. The square headed glazing bar sashes of 1st and 2nd floors, those on piano nobile in semicircular arched panels with consoled pediments, are articulated by a giant order of fluted Corinthian pilasters carrying main entablature with Paterae frieze. 1936 attic storey with dentil cornice and balustraded parapet. Enriched plat band to 2nd floor between giant pilasters. Cast iron area railings. Rear elevation has a bow and a wing on north side of courtyard. Very fine Adam interior of No 20 virtually intact; grand staircase with copper balustrade of openwork balusters, top lit in oblong well, former Eating Room and Music Room on ground floor, 1st floor drawing rooms, all retaining original plasterwork, paintings by Zucchi, mahogany doors and door furniture etc Survey of London; vol XXIX .

Listing NGR: TQ2965580489