11, HILL STREET W1 (See details for further address information)

HILL STREET, W1 TQ 2880 NE AND TQ 2880 SE No 11 (including 69/223 and 80/223 no's 40/40A Hays Mews) II GV Terraced house. c1748, altered; refronted c1907-14. Rear left hand extension containing ballroom, early 1890s, possibly by Robert Edis, for the Duke of Newcastle; stables at rear c1906 by J Leonard Williams for Charles Ansell (Williams also designed a garage, now No 4 Hay's Mews, contemporary with the stables, qv); all, with garden wall, forming a courtyard. Red brick with limestone dressings. 4 storeys, basement and attics. Slated mansard roof with dormers. Two similar entrances with moulded surrounds, console bracketed hoods and panelled doors, part-glazed with intricate wrought iron scroll pattern grills. Ground 'floor sashes architraved with keystones; 1st floor, architraved with alternating triangular and segmental pediments and continuous wrought iron balcony; 2nd floor, architraved with triangular pedi- ments; 3rd floor architraved with cornice. Parapet. Courtyard facade with glazed loggia of 3 arches above which 3 round-arched casements. 3 light projecting bay window at 3rd floor level. Central entrance to loggia approach- ed by impressive imperial stair of 2 curved flights then one straight with cast iron balustrade. Stables of 2 storeys. Courtyard facade stuccoed; 2 round-arched ground floor sashes in shallow architraved recesses with key- stone linked by impost bands; 1st floor, 4 sashes with panelled aprons, separa- ted by Tuscan pilasters, paired at angles, carrying entablature with bracketed cornice surmounted by cast iron balustrade. Mews facade'of red brick with stone ground floor and pilasters supporting cornice'and stone parapet. Tiled mansard roof -with dormers. 2 storeys and attics. Ground floor with 5 round- arched entrances, altered and sashes at 1st floor level replacing original oculi. Interior of house much altered and partitioned; known to have been sumputuously - redecorated in English Carolean style to a very high standard by J Leonard Williams c1906 but only elements of this remain..apart from the .satin-wood dressing room, now painted over. A further inferior decorative scheme incorporating these elements appears to be late 1920s/early 30s. Main stair in provincial early C18 style, possibly c1920. In the rear left hand'rear extension, a superb ballroom in Louis XV style known to have been built for the Duke of Newcastle whose monogram appears,'with the ducal coronet in the coving. 4 bays plus 2 bays separated by Ionic distyle in antis marble column screen at entrance end and, at further end, a gallery for musicians with 3 openings and elaborate wrought iron railings incorporating ducal mono- gram and coronet. High quality, lively and inventive decoration in blue, gold and white incorporating musical instruments and floral- swags to moulded panel walls and ceilings. Round-arched window recesses. . . No 11,Hill Street forms a group with Nos 5-19 (odd) Hill Street and No 4 Hay's Mews.

Listing NGR: TQ2867280493