43, Weymouth Street W1

No. 43 Weymouth Street is a terraced town villa, rebuilt in the mid to late 19th century from a former mews building. The exterior is stuccoed, featuring a channelled ground floor and a slate roof. This building is an interesting example of Regency Revival architecture. It has two storeys and a dormered mansard above a basement, with five windows across the front. The central doorway is architraved and has a small balcony supported by consoles above, which acts as a dentilled cornice hood. The ground and first floors have recessed sash windows, with the central first-floor window being round-headed, and there are casemented dormers in the roof. A string course runs over the heads of the ground floor windows, and there is a cornice above the ground and first floor sill band. The building is topped with a moulded crowning cornice and a balustraded parapet. A scrolled cast iron balustrade adorns the small first-floor balcony, and there are cast iron area railings with tasselled spearhead finials. This building is an early example of the Portland (Howard de Walden) Estate's efforts to reintroduce a domestic residential character to this professional area, a scheme that was pursued on the east-west cross streets in the early 1900s. It is included for its group value only.