1-7, Meard Street W1

TQ 2981 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER MEARD STREET, W1 58/76 (South Side)

Nos. 1 to 7 (odd) 24.2.58 GV II*

Uniform terrace houses. c.1732 by John Meard. Brown stock brick with red brick dressings, stuccoed ground floor, slate roof. 4 storeys, and basement. Each front 3 windows wide with wider piers to party walls between Nos. 1 and 3 and 5 and 7. Mock-jointed stucco ground floor up to 1st floor sill band. Doorways to left and right on Nos. 1 and 7 and paired between Nos. 3 and 5; wooden architrave doorcases flanked by thin panelled strips and boldly carved consoles supporting cornice - hoods, 6 panel door and rectangular fanlights, panelled key blocks rising to cornice bed moulds. Flush framed sashes with later C19 glazing in red brick dressings under flat gauged red brick arches. Parapet with coping. Wrought iron area railings with urn finials. Interiors fully panelled on conventional passage hall dog leg staircase plan with closet wing. Nos. 3 and 5 have mirror plan; Doric pilasters frame opening from passage to stairwell, open string carved tread ends to stairs with Doric turned balusters and newels; box cornice etc, See also the contemporary Nos. 67 to 70 Dean Street by Meard.

Survey of London; Vol. XXXIII.

Listing NGR: TQ2966481021