Number 7 And Attached Railings

Number 7 Cavendish Square is a terraced house, built between 1910 and 1912 by James Gibson for Arthur Ridley Bax. It is constructed of Portland stone with a slate roof and has four storeys, an attic, and a basement. The building is three windows wide and designed in the Edwardian Baroque style.

The right side features a porch with Ionic columns supporting an entablature, beneath a first-floor balcony with a cast iron balustrade. The doorcase is enriched with bayleaf motifs, and contains a part-glazed door. To the left is a bowed three-light bay with architraved metal casements and blind boxes. The first floor has tall architraved metal casements with patterned glazing bars, and bayleaf enrichment to the architrave heads. The second and third floors have casements in the outer bays linked vertically by architraves, also with blind boxes. A second-floor central window is set within an aedicule of Ionic columns, supporting a broken segmental pediment with a central cartouche, all supported on large brackets with mask stops. The attic storey has a continuous projecting stone balcony set on large enriched brackets, with a cast iron balustrade. Above the attic is a stone balustrade with large dies at the angles, each featuring an oval plaque. Original lead rainwater heads and pipes are located at both angles. The rear of the building is constructed of yellow stock brick and features two bowed bays.

Attached cast iron railings surround the area. The interior is richly decorated. A classically detailed stone-clad vestibule leads to a walnut-panelled hall, which curves to the left and contains a sweeping open-well staircase that rises to the fourth floor. The staircase has intricately patterned openwork carved panels to the balusters, with continuing walnut panelling through the third floor. On the fourth floor is plaster panelling and an enriched cornice, alongside a circular ceiling light with an enriched architrave. A single-storey extension, partly circular in plan and richly decorated, extends from the ground floor hall and features a circular ceiling light with an elaborate plaster architrave. The main rooms lead off the landing in a conventional layout, although some have been subdivided. Most rooms retain good plasterwork or wood panelling with richly detailed cornices. Several marble fireplaces remain, including an original bayleaf-framed mirror over the fireplace in the front room on the first floor. Some plasterwork ceilings are also present.