78, Mount Street W1

TQ 2880 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER MOUNT STREET, W1 68/80 (south side)

5.2.70 No. 78

G.V. II

Corner terrace house. 1896-97 by Balfour and Turner and virtually a pair to their No. 6 Aldford Street q.v. Red brick with Portland stone dressings, slate roof. Free Style Queen Anne and slightly Jacobethan details. 5 storeys and basement. 2 unequal window bays. Recessed porch to left with elliptical arch on broad squat stone piers, the right hand pier overlapping the 2 window ground floor bay with central dividing pilaster; the canted oriel of 4 architraved narrow sash lights is corbelled out and its cornice is capped by iron railing as balcony to 2nd floor tripartite stone dressed window with similar windows in line above. Narrower coupled and single stone dressed sashes to entrance bay on 2nd to 4th floors. The front is finished off with stone coped parapet raised as gable over major right hand bay. Return has 2 large corbelled chimney stacks linked by wide segmental arches with balconies to ground and 1st floors, irregular fenestration with small oriel butting stack nearest corner on 1st floor. Cast iron Arts and Crafts area railings returned with screen wall to garden linking up with those of No. 67 Aldford Street. Part of island block development by Balfour and Turner as part of their Grosvenor Estate improvements.

Survey of London; Vol. XL.

Listing NGR: TQ2828080534