75-6, Wimpole Street

The building comprises a pair of townhouses at 75-6 Wimpole Street, constructed in 1897 with minor alterations in the 20th century. They are now used as offices and flats. Built in a distinctive eclectic style combining Queen Anne and Flemish Renaissance elements, the townhouses are constructed of rubbed red brick with moulded brick window arches and painted stone dressings.

The houses are four storeys high, with Dutch gabled attics. A pair of entrance porches is centrally positioned, featuring arches supported by columns with elaborately carved capitals, topped with a short balustrade. The ground floor presents three windows on either side of the entrances, each with leaded overlights. Above this is a first-floor oriel window with closely-spaced round-arched windows, also with leaded overlights, and moulded brick arches. A similar window is above the porch, and a continuous moulded cornice runs across the pair. The second and third floors each have three windows, with painted aprons below. Quoins are present on the exterior and doubled at the centre of the pair. The Dutch gabled attics have a pair of three-light windows each, with a smaller pair positioned below the pediment at the apex.

Inside, the original joinery remains largely intact, including moulded architraves, doors, and cornices, elliptical arched openings, lavish 18th-century-style chimneypieces, and decorative plasterwork. The original layout has been generally preserved, with entrance lobbies leading to halls through glazed timber screens; the screen to No. 75 has a leaded fanlight with a broken apex scrolled pediment. A notable feature is the full-height open-string staircase around an open well, with square-section vase-type balusters, a panelled dado, arcaded screens on the landings, and glazed lanterns over the well. The rear room of No. 76 features plaster medallions depicting putti in the frieze. Some alterations have occurred for subdivision into flats and office use, but the original interiors remain largely intact.

The pair has group value with nearby listed buildings, collectively creating an attractive and consistently well-designed ensemble of late 19th-century townhouses with intact interiors.