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

TQ 2880 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER HILL STREET, Wl 79/26 No 40 5.2.70 (Formerly listed as No 40 Waverton G.V. Street) Also known as No 40 Waverton Street. II Terraced town house. 1752-53 probably by John Balgrave with early C.20 alterations to rear. Multi-coloured stock brick, slate roof. 4 storeys, basement and dormered mansard. 4 windows wide. Entrance to right with mid C.19 stone Doric porch with balustraded parapet, square headed doorway with half glazed doors and fanlight. Recessed sash windows, no glazing bars, under flat gauged red brick arches. 1st floor plat band and sill band, cut by lengthening of windows, thin stone band between 3rd floor window heads forming rudimentary frieze beneath moulded stone cornice, parapet with coping. Cast iron balconettes to 1st floor. Cast iron area railings with flambé torch finials. Interior much altered late C.19 and early C.20 in neo-Georgian and neo-Adam manner but retaining front compartment staircase etc. Survey of London; Vol. XL.

Listing NGR: TQ2848880429