16-19, DUNRAVEN STREET W1

TQ 2780 NE and 2880 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER DUNRAVEN STREET W1 67/11 ;68/94 Nos 16 to 19 (consec. ) G.V. II Terrace houses. 1897-98 by Sidney R.J. Smith. Red brick and generous stone dressings, slate roofs. Symmetrical group of 4 houses with lively free use of Georgian and Carolean details and carving. 4 storeys, basements and attics. Each front 3 windows wide. The central pair of gabled fronts have coupled entrances to centre, recessed porches with curved stone hoods. 3 light through-storey stone dressed bow windows to ground and 1st floors with carved enrichment to aprons, consoles etc; architraved windows to upper floors and Diocletian attic windows in gables. Continuous ornamental cast iron balcony across 3rd floor. Flanking houses have entrances to left and right, the doorways with enriched stone architraves and pedimented hoods. Each has through-storey stone dressed rectangular bay to ground and 1st floors with Venetian window on ground floor and tripartite window with columns and entablature to 1st floor; architraved windows to upper floors with pediments on 2nd floor and rusticated columns to 3rd floor. Stone cornices and swept parapets. All four houses have stone walls with cast iron railings,between ball finialed piers, to areas. Survey of London; Vol. XL.

Listing NGR: TQ2799380903