59-67, PORTLAND PLACE W1

TQ 2881 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PORTLAND PLACE, W1 45/13 (west side) Nos 59 to 67 (odd) 5.2.70 (No 59 only) 10.9.54 G.V. II* Large terraced 1st rate town houses. 1776-c1780 by James Adam as a speculative development with his brothers and John Elwes on a Portland Estate lease. Stock brick with channelled stucco ground floors and No 67 fully stuccoed mid C19; slate roofs. Astylar elevations designed as part of a symmetrical block with Nos 49 and 51 q.v. and with central pilastered and pedimented feature made of No 59 extending one bay in to No 61 and likewise originally into No.57, since rebuilt breaking symmetry. 4 storeys, except for No 59 with mansard behind pediment, on basements. 3-window wide fronts. Semicircular arched doorways to left on Nos 59 and 61 (with architrave moulded surrounds) and to right for remainder with channelling struck to arches but No 67 with added vermiculations; panelled doors and side lights, plain or enriched jambs and fanlights overall. Recessed sashes under flat gauged arches to upper floors; Nos 65 and 67 with architraves and No 67 with shallow ornamented pilasters and pediments to 1st floor windows. Plat band over ground floor stuccowork; moulded stucco band over 1st floor and main cornice over 2nd floor; attic cornice with blocking course. No 59 and left hand bay of No 61 have giant Ionic pilasters through 1st and 2nd floor and broad shallow pediment. Cast iron Grecian and scrolled mid C19 balconies across 1st floor.Plumbed spike finialed area railings. Some good original Adam interior features, plasterwork and stone geometrical staircases with wrought iron balustrades; statuary marble chimneypieces; etc. No 61 with neo-Palladian c1900 decoration to ground floor.

Listing NGR: TQ2872481920