16, Grosvenor Street W1

This is a terrace town house at 16 Grosvenor Street, London. It was originally built around 1720 by Thomas Ripley and subsequently altered in 1862 by Owen Jones, and internally in the early 20th century by F W Foster. The building is constructed of brown brick with a slate roof and has three storeys and an attic. It features five windows. The front has a painted stone cornice, rusticated quoins, and a plat band above the ground floor. The sash windows are topped by cambered gauged arches, and there are cast iron balconettes to the first floor. The doorway is framed by Corinthian pilasters and an entablature.

To the right, incorporated into the same building, is the former rectory of St George’s Hanover Square, rebuilt in brown brick in 1937 by Wimperis, Simpson, and Guthrie, in a style consistent with the original 1720s design.

The ground floor interior of 16 Grosvenor Street has been altered to create a showroom, but it retains two handsome marble fireplaces, likely dating to the late 18th century, and an 18th-century lyre pattern wrought iron balustrade to the staircase, although the stairs themselves may be a 1930s reconstruction.