10, Duchess Street W1

No. 10 Duchess Street is a mews building, now part of the British Medical Association, constructed around 1769-71 by Robert Adam as the stable-coach house for Chandos House on Queen Anne Street. The building has been quite sympathetically altered around 1924 by Arthur Bolton. It features a stucco exterior and a slate roof, showcasing a distinctive neo-classical style. The structure has three storeys and is three bays wide, with the central bay being taller. There is a central carriage archway with a channelled surround and flanking piers. Above the first and second floors, the central section is flanked by pairs of pilasters in the Tower of the Winds order, which support an enriched frieze, a dentil cornice, and a parapet adorned with dies featuring oval rosettes. The lower outer bays have windows on two storeys and are topped with anthemion iron cresting. The entire composition is flanked by panelled piers that are crowned by sphinxes.