5, Aldford Street W1

No. 5 Aldford Street is a terraced town house built between 1892 and 1894 by the architects Balfour and Turner. It features red brick construction with Portland stone dressings and is designed in a restrained Free style Queen Anne with slight Flemish details. The building has four storeys and a basement, topped with a gabled attic, and is three windows wide.

The entrance is located in an archivolt arched enclosed porch to the left, above which is a narrow canted bay that rises three storeys. This bay is balanced on the right by a similar three-storey bay supported by foliate-capped stone columns, which have a rather Byzantine style, in front of the ground floor window. The narrow central section has a single sash window on each floor, matching the sashes in the flanking canted bays, all of which feature glazing bars and architraves.

Additional architectural details include a moulded stone string over the ground floor, a stone entablature across the second floor, and a stone balcony with a delicate wrought iron balustrade that bridges over the canted bays at the attic storey, culminating in a shaped gable. The property is complemented by good wrought iron area railings. It is 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.