Audley House

TQ 2981 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER MARGARET STREET, W1 57/11 Nos. 9 to 12 (consec) (Audley House)

GV II

Block of flats. 1907 by J.W. Simpson and M. Ayrton. Red brick with stone dressings, slate roof. Free Style Tudor, large symmetrical block built as bachelor flats. 5 storeys, basement, attics and part mansard. 15 bays wide including oriel corner turret to Great Titchfield Street. Recessed, stone dressed flat arched doorways to. centre of each front but coupled to Nos. 11 and 12, ground floor bay windows, some altered. Sheer stone mullioned and transomed casement windows; centrepiece of 2 steep stone gables alternating with 4-storey stone canted oriels and 4 two-storey stone oriels to flanking sections of elevation. Modillion bracketed stone cornice above 3rd floor dying into oriel bays of centrepiece. The gable end to Great Titchfield Street has cornice returned "behind" the corner oriel turrets; central 1st floor semicircular arched and eared architraved windows giving on to balcony and corbelled out chimney stack rising through the shaped gable. A short screen wall with gateway separating the gable end from adjacent block allows fine views of All Saints tower. Arts and Crafts ironwork to area railings. Listed in part for group value.

Listing NGR: TQ2918481433