26, Soho Square W1

No. 26 Soho Square is a Grade II* listed terrace town house built between 1788 and 1789, likely designed by Sir William Robinson. The building features stock brick construction with a stucco ground floor and a slate roof, rising three storeys with a dormered mansard. It is two bays wide. The ground floor has been altered and now includes two pairs of panelled and glazed doors from around 1900, accessed by a flight of steps.

On the first floor, there is a large single Venetian window set in a semicircular arched reveal, complete with a stuccoed tympanum. This tripartite window is framed by an Ionic order of pilasters and columns, featuring entablatures and a central archivolt, with a blind balustrade situated below the sill. The second floor has recessed sash windows, which have later 19th-century glazing, positioned under flat gauged arches. The exterior is finished with a painted stone cornice and parapet with coping, along with a sill band on the first floor and window guards on the second floor.

Inside, the extensive interiors retain many original features despite some alterations. Notable elements include an Ionic colonnade screen leading to a large top-lit stair compartment, with a stone staircase that rises to a first-floor cantilevered gallery adorned with delicately crafted scrollwork wrought iron balusters. There is a lion mask decorated band at the second-floor level, a bracketed cornice beneath a ceiling cove with a guilloche surround to a large roof light, and richly modelled cornices. The property also boasts numerous carved and pedimented doorcases, as well as fine joinery, including doors veneered in mahogany attributed to Thomas Chippendale and a built-in bookcase.