30 and 31, Acacia Road NW8

Nos. 30 and 31 Acacia Road are a pair of semi-detached villas built around 1830 to 1840 as part of the Portland Estate development in St John’s Wood. They are constructed of stucco with a slate roof and represent an Italianate-Grecian style. The buildings are two storeys high, with a semi-basement level. Each villa is three windows wide, with narrower, recessed entrance bays. They feature architraved and consoled-corniced doorways accessed by steps. The ground-floor windows are recessed sashes within moulded architraves, topped with cornices and consoles; some alterations have been made to the windows in the entrance bays. The paired projecting inner bays are articulated with a Doric pilaster order rising from a plat band above the semi-basement to a frieze beneath a flat, low-pitched hipped roof, which now incorporates later dormers; a central corniced chimney stack is present. Cast iron Grecian guard rails are fitted to the ground floor windows. The design is similar to other villas on the adjoining Eyre Estate.