73 Harley Street

This is a house, later adapted for use as medical consulting rooms, built in 1905. It is an example of the Edwardian Renaissance style, designed by William Henry White. The building occupies the site of an earlier terraced house dating to circa 1773.

The Harley Street façade is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with stone dressings, cast iron railings, and flower guards to the first floor. The rear elevation is faced with glazed tiles. The roof is hidden behind a parapet.

The house is four storeys high, with attics and a basement, and has three bays. The principal floors include a well staircase positioned to the south, a large room to the north-east, and a smaller room to the north-west.

The Harley Street elevation features a curved gable with stone coping, kneelers, an oculus, and a four-light window. The third floor has three elliptical-headed sash windows, each with keystones, eared architraves, stone bands, and quoins. The lower floors exhibit a curved, triple-bay design extending from the second to the ground floor level, with taller sash windows on the first and ground floors, and balconnettes to the first-floor windows. A further bay is present on the north side of the second and first floors, also featuring sash windows and a balconnette at first-floor level. Below the entrance is a stone, curved open-pediment supported by engaged Tuscan columns, sheltering a half-glazed mahogany door with side lights and fanlights, approached by three steps from street level.

The rear elevation is clad in white glazed tiles and incorporates a canted bay window extending through three floors.

The interior entrance hall leads to a vestibule with a dado rail and panelling, including a glazed screen with Art Nouveau style metalwork decorating a doorcase with a broken curved pediment and side-lights. The hall beyond shows dado panelling, mahogany doorcases with eared architraves and matching door furniture, a fireplace with eared architraves and a swag frieze, and a mahogany well staircase with turned balusters and square newel posts that rises to the attic, where a rectangular glazed fanlight with metal detailing is positioned. The large front ground floor room retains its dado rail and a cornice with ovolo moulding, and has a fire surround with a reeded architrave and coloured tiles.

The larger front room on the first floor has an Adam style ceiling decorated with wheat ear motifs and painted roundels, likely salvaged from the earlier building, an elaborate cornice, panelled walls with a dado rail, and a marble fire surround with fluted Ionic columns. Another room also features a painted roundel, dado rail, and a fire surround with raised panels and pilasters adorned with wheat ear drops. The second floor retains a cornice and a more modest fire surround with swag and paterae decoration.

The basement contains a simpler service staircase with stick balusters, square newel post, a fixed wooden tray support, and some original half-glazed room divisions.

Attached cast iron area railings are present, featuring urn finials and scrollwork decoration.