Royal College Of Nursing

The Royal College of Nursing is a substantial town house built in 1729. In 1930, it was refronted and incorporated into a redevelopment of the corner site by Sir Edwin Cooper, which included Henrietta Place. The building has five storeys, a basement, and dormers in the attic, all faced with classical Portland stone. It features five windows and a rusticated ashlar central enclosed porch.

Inside, the original structure retains fielded panelled rooms with carved marble chimneypieces on the ground, first, and second floors. There is a cut string staircase with a wrought iron balustrade, and the stairwell and its ceiling are painted in trompe l'oeil, likely by artists including John Devoto and Sir James Thornhill. The building was once the residence of H. H. Asquith, and there is a Greater London Council plaque commemorating this. It is one of the earliest houses in Cavendish Square.