62, Harley Street W1

TQ 2881 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER HARLEY STREET, Wl 45/69 (East side) 30.7.85 No. 62 G.V. II Corner terraced town house. c.1773, Portland Estate development, possibly by John White in partnership with the plasterer Thomas Collins, altered and refaced to front and side, c.1900. Portland stone facing with channelled ground floor; slate roof. 4 storeys (including attic storey) on basement. 3 windows wide. Irregular return to New Cavendish Street and projecting single storey rear wing. Harley Street front has projecting doorway to left, with architrave case incorporating fluted panel over doorhead and cornice hood on console brackets. Recessed sashes in architraves, those on 1st floor with alternating triangular and segmental pediments on consoles, projecting sills with iron guards on corbel brackets. 1st and 2nd floor windows/linked by plain apron panels and panels between 2nd floor window heads and main cornice. Flank return to New Cavendish Street has slightly projecting chimney breasts with corniced stacks and 2 ranges of sash windows at far end with cornices over on 1st floor. Ground floor channelling carried up to 1st floor sill course. Bracketed main cornice over 2nd floor and cornice and blocking course, cast iron area railings with artichoke finials. Interior retains original elegant geometrical stone staircase with wrought iron balustrade and plasterwork details, elaborated and added to in neo-Adam manner at time of refacing.

Listing NGR: TQ2866081693