11, Hertford Street W1

TQ 2880 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER HERTFORD STREET W1 80/99 14.1.70 No 11 GV II* Terraced town house. c.1770-71 as part of the development of the south side of Hertford Street by the elder Henry Holland (builder, of Fulham) with his son, in partnership with John Eldridge - interior almost certainly by the plasterer Francis Engleheart as Holland's lessee. Brown brick, rusticated stucco ground floor, slate roof. 3 storeys and attic storey (probably added early C19) with dormered mansard, on basement. 3 windows wide. Entrance to left with panelled door and side lights under segmental fanlight. Recessed sashes, no glazing bars, under flat gauged arches, the stucco rustication struck to arches of ground floor windows and doorway. Moulded stone cornice over 2nd floor and attic parapet with coping. Cast iron balcony across 1st floor added early to mid C19. Cast iron area railings. Interior retains fine original decoration to principal reception rooms, despite alterations to rear and to hall with the mid to later C19 stone staircase with cast iron balustrade; on the ground floor the hall retains good neo-classical plasterwork frieze and similar fine plasterwork ceiling to front room with frieze and cornice, all no doubt by Engleheart; the 1st floor salon or drawing room remains virtually unaltered with fine ornate plasterwork ceiling by Engleheart, decorated window frames and shutters, enriched head to doorway and fine stone chimney piece of c.1770; the top of the stairwell retains original plasterwork frieze, etc. The house was the residence of the 4th Earl of Sandwich (notoriously 1st Lord of the Admiralty under Lord North) from 1782 to his death in 1792.

Listing NGR: TQ2863080146