33, Upper Brook Street W1

TQ 2880 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER UPPER BROOK 68/31 STREET, Wl 24.2.58 No. 33 G.V. II* Terraced town house. Built 1756-57 but transformed by (Sir) Robert Taylor in 1767-68 for John Boyd Danson (for whom he had previously built Danson Park), altered and heightened early to mid C.19. Colour washed brick and stone dressings, slate roof. Originally 3 storeys with pediment, now 4 with basement and dormered mansard. 3 windows wide. Central doorway, approached by 5 shallow steps, and ground floor windows recessed for one order in archivolt arched openings with unique use of reduced scale engaged Doric columns with dosserets but with the cornice projecting and linking archivolts as impost string whilst being carried in beneath fanlight as doorhead, the 6 panel door itself in architrave case. The 1st floor windows rising from pseudo parapet with blind balustrading below sills, have architraves,that to centre eared and further emphasised by cornice; high set 2nd floor architraved windows and later attic storey with sill band and stucco banded and coped parapet. Stone dwarf walls and dies to areas, flanking steps with simple wrought iron railings. Interior, despite alterations, retains essential features of Taylor's spacious plan with plaster vaulted and saucer domed hall ceiling on Siena marble painted Doric columns and typical apsed ended cantilevered stone staircase rising off it to left, rear ground and 1st floor rooms octagonal and 1st floor front room a cube with coved ceiling retaining some of its plasterwork. Survey of London; Vol. XL.

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