2, Soho Square W1

TQ 2981 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER SOHO SQUARE, W1 58/15 5.2.70 No. 2 GV II Terrace house. c.1735 by John Sanger,carpenter. Stock brick, slate roof. 4 storeys. 3 windows wide. Ground floor has entrance to left with 5-panel door and semicircular fanlight recessed in panelled reveals and soffit and with doorcase of Doric columns, dosserets and open mutule pediment; pilastered display window with entablature inserted to right late C19. Upper floors (the top are early C19 addition) have recessed sashes with C19 glazing, under flat gauged arches. Original 1st floor sill band cut by lowering of sills. Parapet with coping. Interior has central top 1st stair well between main rooms and closet beyond; hall with corniced doorcases, rear ground floor room with niches with finely carved shell-heads flanking pair of carved scrolls that formerly framed fireplace; cut string staircase with 2 turned balusters per tread, column newels, swept handrail with bold curtail - balustrade renewed above 1st floor; enriched cornices, doorcases etc. Survey of London; Vol. XXXIII.

Listing NGR: TQ2963481248