7 And 7A, Grafton Street W1

TQ 2880 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER GRAFTON STREET Wl 69/72 Nos 7, 7A GV II Terrace house c.1772 built as part of adjoining row by Sir Robert Taylor. Stock brick, slate roof. Facade largely rebuilt between the wars in neo Georgian fashion, of 3 main storeys with parapeted attic above the cornice projecting timber shop front and first floor show window. To right: round arched house entrance with original decorated fanlight and entablatured entrance to No 7A to left in corner. Plain rear elevations with canted bay, unaltered. The interiors retain considerable amount of Taylor's work. Doorway No 7 gives into original barrel vaulted corridor with decorative plasterwork leading through Doric column screen to apse ended top lit stairwell with scrolled wrought iron balustrade to cut string stone stairs. Doorway No 7A gives into hall with Doric column screen and wrought iron balustraded staircase. First floor rooms to No 7 in corner and to rear retain original plasterwork with some neo-Georgian additions, ornate marble chimneypiece in Louis XV style.

Listing NGR: TQ2890880637