90A, Harley Street W1

TQ 2881 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER HARLEY STREET, Wl 45/39 (East side) No. 90A G.V. II House. 1912 by Sydney Tatchell, built facing Weymouth Street abutting the wing of Tatchell's contemporary No. 90 Harley Street town house,qv.Portland stone with channelled ground floor and rusticated quoins. Similar sharply profiled linear classical details to No. 90 applied on a domestic pavilion scale. 2 storeys and dormered mansard on basement. 5 windows wide symmetrical front. Central porch (a reduced version of that of No. 90) has deep set, splayed semicircular arched doorway with ornamental iron balustrade above cornice. Recessed glazing bar sashes, those on 1st floor (where the centre bay is slightly advanced) in eared architraves with pulvinated frieze and cornices rising into main frieze and with apron panels. Narrow lst floor plat band; fluted frieze and cornice with balustraded parapet. Central triangular pedimented dormer flanked by segmental pedimented ones. An ashlar single storey screen wall extends to right. Ornamental cast iron area railings. This house is an example of the Portland Estate's early C.20 attempt to reintroduce a domestic character to an area that had become predominantly professional.

Listing NGR: TQ2864181835