111 AND 113, HARLEY STREET W1

TQ 2881 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER HARLEY STREET, W1 45/19 (West side) 10.9.54 Nos. 111 and 113 G.V. II Terraced town houses. c.1777 Portland Estate development, probably by John White in partnership with the plasterer Thomas Collins (associates of Sir William Chambers). Stock brick with channelled stucco ground floors; slate roofs. 4 storeys, basement and dormered mansards. 3-window wide fronts. Broad semicircular arched doorways to left in Coade stone vermiculated surrounds with head keystones; panelled doors, entablatured and framed side lights, recessed doorheads, under fanlights, as Venetian window composition. Recessed sashes, under flat gauged arches to upper floors of No. 113 and with stucco architraves and 1st floor pediments to No. 111. 1st floor plat band; No. 111 with coped parapet; No. 113 with stucco cornice and blocking course. Continuous cast iron c.1840 bombé balconies to 1st floor. Cast iron area railings with urn finials. Interiors altered, plain staircase to No. 113, but No. 111 retains top lit stone geometrical staircase with wrought iron balustrade and inlaid marble chimneypieces, etc. features typical of these speculative 1st rate houses of the 1770s in Harley Street.

Listing NGR: TQ2856281895