42 and 43, Wimpole Street W1

Nos 42 and 43 Wimpole Street are terraced townhouses built in the 1770s as part of the Portland Estate development, likely designed by John White. They feature stock brick construction with channelled stucco ground floors and slate roofs, standing four storeys high with basements. The buildings have three-window wide fronts without decorative styles.

No 42 has a broad semicircular arched doorway on the right, adorned with stucco rustication and a Coade head keystone. No 43 features a stucco Ionic columned porch to the right. Both houses have panelled doors, sidelights, and patterned fanlights arranged in a plain Venetian window style. The upper floors have recessed sashes set under flat gauged arches.

There are plat bands above the ground floors, with guilloche enrichment on No 43, which also includes sill bands on the second and third floors and a dentil cornice below the parapet with coping. No 42 has cast iron Victorian window guards on the first floor, while No 43 boasts a cast iron balcony. Flambé urn finials decorate the wrought iron area railings. The interiors have not been inspected.