93, PARK LANE W1

TQ 2880 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER PARK LANE, W1 68/62 (east aide) 24.2.58 No. 93 G.V. I Terraced town house. Speculative rebuild of 1823-25 by Samuel Baxter, builder. Stuccoed with slate roof. 4 main storeys, basement and mid C.19 attic. 4 windows wide to Park Lane with 3 windows in full height bow and 5-window return to Upper Grosvenor Street. The latter contains central entrance with porch of coupled Ionic columns; channelled ground floor with semicircular arched windows, channelling struck to arches. Upper floors of this entrance front have architraved windows with cornices on piano nobile where the central window is pedimented. Main entablature over 3rd floor and attic windows recessed between panelled chimney stacks reading as dies with sections of balustrading between. The Park Lane front also has channelled ground floor and architraved sashes to upper floors including bow entablature returned with balustraded parapet. Original cast iron geometric pattern continuous balcony to 1st floor on both fronts. Spear head and palmette pommel-finialed area railings. The interior retains good features of 1823-25 in particular the top lit staircase with Greek Revival iron balustrade with much decoration in the Louis XV - Louis XVI and Adam revival taste of the 1870s the majority probably by William Wallace, and 2 statuary marble Greek Revival chimney pieces in the 1st floor drawing room, possibly original to the house. No. 93 was Benjamin Disraeli's London residence from 1839 to 1872; Coningsby, much of Sybil and other novels by Disraeli were written here. The commemorative plaque to the Prime Minister's association with the house was set up by the 2nd Duke of Westminster in 1913. Grade I principally for Disraeli association. Survey of London; Vol. XL.

Listing NGR: TQ2806480640