23-35, LANCASTER GATE W2

A grand terrace of houses at 23-35 Lancaster Gate, London, built in 1865 by John Johnson. The building is constructed of stucco with a slate mansard roof and stands four storeys high with an attic mansard. Several houses have full attic storeys. Each house has a facade of three windows. The ground floor is rusticated, treated as pilasters to numbers 25 and 26. It features paired, projecting Doric porches with rusticated columns. A balustraded balcony runs along the first floor. The windows are square-headed, except those on the first floor, which are round-headed; those at numbers 25 and 26 have Ionic columns in the centre window and a segmental pediment above. The windows have plate glass sash panes. There are dentil cornices above the first-floor windows, projecting forward over the windows, and cornices to the second-floor windows. The windows have architraves. A rich frieze and console cornice sits above the third-floor windows. A subsidiary cornice leads to a balustraded parapet on numbers 24 and 25, which incorporates an arched dormer on number 26. Number 23 has a return to the right. The terrace is visually aligned with the matching terrace at numbers 43-55 and forms an integral part of the planned layout of Lancaster Gate.