73, South Audley Street W1

TQ 2880 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER SOUTH AUDLEY 79/21 STREET, W1 No. 73 G.V. II* Terraced town house. 1736 by Edward Shepherd, refronted by Paul Waterhouse 1908. Portland stone front, original brickwork to rear, slate roof. Consciously asymmetrical elevation with mannerist neo Adam features. 3 main storeys and basement with attic storey and steep mansard. 3 windows wide. Entrance bay to left treated separately and very slightly recessed, the doorway with swept stone hood; the window above in eared architrave with segmental pediment, plain windows above with shallow relief keystones to lintels. The two main right hand bays are elaborated and treated as a separate composition with channelled ground floor having 2 deeply recessed sashes with channelling struck to lintels. Giant order of Ionic pilasters through 1st and 2nd floors, the central one broadened out with shallow niche at 1st floor and medallion plaque with garland pendants dividing the half capitals, supporting entablature with modillion cornice; attic storey has pilaster strips with enriched pendants, vestigial modillion cornice to parapet surmounted by urns. Fine surviving original interior with exceptional plasterwork ceilings to ground and 1st floor rooms as well as elaborate plaster wall cartouche in ground floor front room and decorative reliefs to walls of rear room, top lit stone stair with Paul Waterhouse balustrade, doorcases, cornices etc. Survey of London; Vol. XL.

Listing NGR: TQ2838680426