23, South Street W1

TQ 2880 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER SOUTH STREET, Wl 79/12 (north side) 5.2.70 No. 23 G.V. II Terraced house on corner and part of Balfour Mews development. 1898-99 by Balfour and Turner with addition of shallow projecting 2 storey entrance bay in 1913 approved by Thackeray Turner, to make No. 23 properly a "mews house". Fine quality red brick with stone dressings, tiled roof, in Balfour and Turner restrained late Queen Anne Arts and Crafts idiom. 2 storeys,basement and dormered attic. Irregular front with shallow parapeted entrance bay next to corner with rusticated pilastered doorway flanked by high set small segmental arched flush framed windows and with one flush framed glazing bar sash window to 1st floor. Recessed right hand part has 3 closely set flush framed glazing bar sashes with segmental arches on ground floor, flat arches on 1st floor. Deep bracketed stone eaves cornice, 2 large gabled dormers. Gabled return to mews with brown glazed brick ground floor and 3 light windows under segmental arches with rusticated dressings to reveals. Tall panelled brick and stone chimney stacks. Arts and Crafts ironwork to area-railings. Part of Balfour and Turner's redevelopment of this part of the Estate. See also Nos. 3 and 4 Aldford Street and Balfour Mews. Survey of London; Vol. XL.

Listing NGR: TQ2834980451