34 and 35, Acacia Road NW8

Nos. 34 and 35 Acacia Road are a pair of semi-detached villas dating from around 1830 to 1840, built as part of the Portland Estate development in St John’s Wood. The villas are constructed of stucco with a slate roof and are designed in an Italianate-Grecian style. They are three storeys high, including an attic storey, with each villa originally two windows wide, although the recessed entrance bays are narrower. Architraved doorways, adorned with consoles and cornices, are set back and accessed by steps. The windows are margin-glazed sashes (though the inner bay of No. 34 now contains later casements) and are set within moulded architraves; the ground floor windows are tripartite and feature cornices and consoles. A Doric pilaster order rises from a plat band above a semi-basement up to the entablature over the first floor; the frieze of No. 34 features wreathed ornament. A pilastered attic storey sits beneath bracketed flat eaves of a hipped roof. Cast iron geometric window guards are present on the ground floor. The villas are similar in design to those on the adjacent Eyre Estate.