5, Aldford Street W1

TQ 2880 NW and SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER ALDFORD STREET, W1 68/86 ;79/4 No. 5

G.V. II

Terraced town house. 1892-94 by Balfour and Turner. Red brick with Portland stone dressings. Restrained Free style Queen Anne with slight Flemish details. 4 storeys and basement with gabled attic. 3 windows wide. Entrance in archivolt arched enclosed porch to left above which rises a 3 storey narrow canted bay, balanced to right by similar 3 storey bay carried on foliate capped rather Byzantine stone columns in front of ground floor window. Narrow centre has single sash window to each floor, identical with sashes in the flanking canted-bays, all with glazing bars and architraves. Moulded stone string over ground floor, stone entablature across 2nd floor and stone balcony with delicate wrought iron balustrade bridging over canted bays across attic storey, the whole finished off with a shaped gable. Good wrought iron area railings. Part of an island block development with Mount Street, bounded by Balfour Place and Rex Place, all designed by Balfour and Turner as part of their improvements for the Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair.

Survey of London; Vol. XL.

Listing NGR: TQ2829880499