26-32, QUEEN ANNE'S GATE SW1

This is a terrace of town houses located on Queen Anne's Gate, London, built around 1700 to 1704. Originally, they formed part of Queen Square, separated by a wall from Park Street. The houses are constructed of brown brick with red brick window surrounds and stone plat bands, topped with slate roofs. Originally three storeys in height, later additions were made in the late 18th or early 19th century, adding a fourth storey above the original second floor, alongside basements. Each house is four windows wide, with the addition of half-blind windows.

The entrances on the left side of the terrace are distinguished by elaborate carved wooden doorcases featuring extensive foliage decoration, carved canopy cornice hoods, brackets, and decorative finials; No. 28 features a replicated doorcase. No. 32 has a later added porch with fluted Doric columns. Most houses have flush framed glazing bar sashes, set within red brick flat arches with carved stone keystones in the form of male heads, on the ground and first floors. Stone plat bands divide the storeys. No. 26 retains a reinstated wood modillion cornice above the second floor and an eave cornice, while the others have parapet copings. Wrought iron area railings include flambe torch finials. The rear elevations overlooking St. James's Park also have stone plat bands and carved mask keystones above the flat, gauged arches of the flush framed glazing bar sashes.

The interiors of Nos. 26 to 30 retain good original features, specifically panelling and staircases with a cut string design, featuring three twisted balusters per tread, along with cornices. The interior of No. 32 was altered in the early 19th century and subsequently again. These townhouses are part of an exceptional group, along with Nos. 15 to 25 (odd numbers). No. 28 was formerly the residence of Lord Haldane, as marked by a Greater London Council plaque.