49, Harley Street W1

No. 49 Harley Street is a corner terraced town house built in 1901 by F.M. Elgood, showcasing a fine red brick exterior with Portland stone dressings and banding, topped with a slate roof. The building is designed in a Free Queen Anne style and consists of four storeys, a basement, and a dormer set within a steeply pitched mansard roof.

The main facade is two windows wide, featuring a balanced asymmetry with a narrower entrance bay on the right that is corbelled out through the first and second floors. The entrance includes a recessed semicircular arched porch made of stone blocks, with voussoirs and a keystone that rise to a corbel table cornice. To the left, the ground floor window is advanced and features a tripartite sash within a Gibbs surround, with spaced voussoirs and a keystone that extends to a cornice, which serves as the base for a shallow stone bowed window on the first floor, flanked by blocked Ionic columns, and topped with a cornice and shallow semi-dome. The second floor has a recessed two-light sash window with a cornice above it.

The corbelled entrance bay contains a small leaded light Venetian window on the first floor and a leaded two-light casement on the second floor. Above the second floor, there is a bracketed cornice with a parapet over the entrance bay. The top floor features three architraved windows. The eaves are overhanging and supported by wrought iron brackets, and there is a corniced dormer. The property is enclosed by wrought iron area railings with scroll finials and squat, bulbous stone column piers topped with ball finials. The plain return of the building has a carefully arranged asymmetrical arrangement of windows.