Little Deans Yard

TO 3079 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER BROAD SANCTUARY, SW1 101/18 (ABBEY PRECINCT AND WESTMINSTER SCHOOL) 24.2.58 Little Dean's Yard: Nos 2 and 3

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House of the Master of the King's Scholars. No. 2 built and No. 3 remodelled 1789-90 by R.W.F. Brettingham as a symmetrical composition originally including the rebuilt No. 1. Yellow stock brick with stucco basement, No. 2 with slate roof. No. 3 tiled. Neoclassical astylar front. 3 storeys, basement and dormered mansards. Each house 3 windows wide with No. 2 as original centrepiece of composition pedimented. Central entrances approached at right angles by arched steps, doorways square headed and architraved flanked by pilasters carrying bracketed cornice-hoods, panelled doors and patterned fanlights. Recessed glazing bar sashes under flat gauged arches, the outer windows tripartite. Stone modillion cornice and parapet, the pediment over No. 2 containing lunette window. Bracketed lamp of Nico type over No. 2.

Westminster School; L.E. Tanner. R.C.H.M.

Listing NGR: TQ3005979355