8, Queen Anne Street W1

TQ 2881 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER QUEEN ANNE STREET, Wl 45/103 (north side) No 8 G.V. II Corner terraced town house. 1914-1915 by W H White. Portland stone with channelled ground floor; slate roof. Free Dixhuitieme style. 4 storeys, basement and dormered mansard. 3 windows wide with entrance in 5 bay return to Mansfield Street. Architraved concave revealed doorway off centre left to return. Front has canted bay windows through ground and 1st floors to right and single window to left,all with architraved sash lights, the bay and left hand window finished off with same cornice and bombé papapet detail; upper floors have architraves and cornices and vertically linked foliated surrounds. Plat band over ground floor; paired console brackets, between 3rd floor windows, to crowning cornice with parapet. Cast iron Louis XV-Louis XVI balconettes to 1st floor windows. The long return is flanked by full height canted bays with concave sides, surmounted by panelled shouldered chimney stacks and sash windows,one at either side of 2 storey central canted bay; open paired Ionic column loggia between flanking canted bays at 3rd floor level. Cast iron area railings. The detailing is similar to No 3 Mansfield Street qv whose garden colonnade links up with the return of No 8.

Listing NGR: TQ2874181578