79, Mount Street W1

TQ 2880 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER MOUNT STREET, W1 68/81 (south side)

No. 79

G.V. II

Terrace house. 1892-94 by Balfour and Turner. Red brick with Portland stone dressings, slate roof. Free Style Queen Anne, a restrained variant on No. 5 Aldford Street q.v. 4 storeys, basement and gabled attics. 3 windows wide. Entrance in enclosed porch with semicircular arched opening having 3 orders of mouldings with slender jamb shafts, imposts and stepped voussoirs. Above rises a 3 storey narrow canted bay balanced to left by a similar 3 storey canted bay carried on octagonal stone columns with rather Byzantine foliated caps, set in front of ground floor window. Narrow centre has single sash window to each floor identical with sashes of canted bays whose outer flanks are blind, all have glazing bars and shallow architraves. Crisply profiled stone string over ground floor, stone entablature carved above 3rd floor round the bays which are extended up into attic and finished with plain gables; dormer to centre above short link section of parapet. Arts and Crafts cast iron area railings. Part of island block development by Balfour and Turner as part of their Grosvenor Estate improvements.

Survey of London; Vol. XL.

Listing NGR: TQ2828780534