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

No 40 Hill Street is a terraced town house built between 1752 and 1753, likely designed by John Balgrave, with some early 20th-century alterations to the rear. The building is constructed of multi-coloured stock brick and features a slate roof. It stands four storeys tall, with a basement and a dormered mansard, and is four windows wide. The entrance is located to the right and is adorned with a mid-19th-century stone Doric porch that has a balustraded parapet, a square-headed doorway with half-glazed doors, and a fanlight. The windows are recessed sash types without glazing bars, set under flat gauged red brick arches. There is a first-floor plat band and a sill band, which are interrupted by the lengthening of the windows. A thin stone band runs between the heads of the third-floor windows, forming a rudimentary frieze beneath a moulded stone cornice, topped by a parapet with coping. The first floor features cast iron balconettes, and the area railings are also cast iron, finished with flambé torch finials. The interior has been significantly altered in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in a neo-Georgian and neo-Adam style, but it still retains the front compartment staircase and other features.