83 And 85, Harley Street W1

TQ 2881 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER HARLEY STREET, W1 45/52 (West side) 10.9.54 Nos. 83 and 85 G.V. II* Terraced town houses. c.1774-76 Portland Estate development by John White in partnership with the plasterer Thomas Collins (associates of Sir William Chambers); the interior of No. 85 by the plasterer John Utterton frequently associated with White. Stock brick with channelled stucco ground floors; slate roofs. 4 storeys and basements, No. 85 with dormered mansard. 3-window wide fronts. Semicircular arched doorways to left in vermiculated Coade stone surrounds with head keystones; panelled doors, framed sidelights, shallow recessed doorheads under patterned fanlights, in Venetian window composition. Recessed sashes, under flat gauged arches to upper floors. 1st floor plat band. Parapets with copings. Continuous cast iron anthemion patterned 1st floor balconies. Wrought iron area railings with urn finials. Fine interiors elaborated on the norm typical for these speculative 1st rate houses of the 1770s in Harley Street; barrel vaulted ante-hall; top lit stone geometrical staircases with scroll and lyre wrought iron balustrades, decorated skylight drums; delicate flute and patera and wreath and garland plasterwork with stucco mythological relief medallions framed by garlands over principal, Ionic columned or pilastered, inlaid marble chimneypieces; mahogany doors; etc.

Listing NGR: TQ2860381773