85 Whitehall

Former end-of-terrace town-house, now offices; mid or late C18, remodelled and heightened c1860, altered 1982-6 and incorporated into a new structure, Richmond House, by Whitfield Associates.

MATERIALS: stock brick with stucco dressings; a hipped slate roof behind a parapet.

PLAN: little can now be discerned of the original plan, which was presumably that of the standard London town-house, comprising a stair hall to the right with the principal rooms on the left and a service wing behind. The service wing and stairs disappeared in the 1980s conversion, but the outline of the hall is still evident on the ground floor.

EXTERIOR: the elevation to Whitehall is three bays wide, with channelled stucco to the ground floor and stucco surrounds to the windows above. The windows are all mid-C19 plate-glass sashes. The panelled double-leaf entrance door sits beneath a projecting cornice on scroll brackets. In front, ornamental latticework railings surround the area. A storey-band separates the first and second storeys, and a cornice above the second storey marks the original height of the building. The return elevation to the north, which now forms part of the forecourt to Whitfield’s Richmond House, is similarly treated.

INTERIORS: the interiors* have been heavily altered throughout, and are not of special interest

*Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’) it is declared that the aforementioned features are not of special architectural or historic interest. .