Nos. 14-22, 22A and 24, QUEEN ANNE'S GATE

Nos. 14 to 22 (even), 22A and 24 Queen Anne's Gate is a group of terraced town houses rebuilt between 1775 and 1778, with some early 19th-century alterations and further modifications for office use in the late 1970s and early to mid-1980s. The buildings are constructed of brown brick, with stuccoed ground floors except for Nos. 18 and 24, and feature slate roofs. They share a similar layout, with a stairwell separating large front and rear rooms, and have bowed rears facing St James's Park.

The houses are four storeys high, with basements and dormered mansards. Most have three-window wide fronts, while Nos. 22, 22A, and 24 have two-window wide fronts. The entrances are located to the left in Nos. 16 to 20 and to the right in Nos. 14, 22, 22A, and 24, featuring semicircular arched doorways with panelled doors and radial patterned fanlights. Notably, No. 16 has a larger arched opening that is recessed, with the ground floor window also recessed, and the arches are linked by an impost string. No. 18 has a door with sidelights and glazing that continues around the fanlight archivolt. The windows are recessed glazing bar sashes under flat gauged arches, with a first-floor sill band and a parapet with coping. No. 18 also features a tent-roofed cast iron verandah-balcony on the first floor.

Wrought iron area railings are present at Nos. 18, 20, and 24, with lamp standards and simple scroll work, spike, and urn finials. The bowed rear elevations have delicate cast iron balconies. The interiors boast a well-designed stone geometrical staircase that rises on a semicircular niche plan, with delicate wrought iron balustrades and top lighting from an oval lantern. Some interiors retain original ceilings in a delicate Adam style and statuary marble chimney pieces, along with panelled shutters. Notably, No. 20 has an early London County Council plaque commemorating Lord Palmerston, who was born here in 1784. This part of the street was originally known as Park Street, separated by a wall from the western part called Queen Square. The group is part of an exceptional collection of late 18th-century and Queen Anne houses.