162 New Bond Street

A four-storey mid-C18 house, remodelled for its current retail and office use.

MATERIALS: primarily constructed in yellow brick with a slate roof.

PLAN: orientated on an east-west axis, a five bay plan, one room deep, with central entrance to a staircase from the ground floor to third floor and a single room either side providing access to the roooms in the one-bay east and west wings.

EXTERIOR: the mid-C18 north (courtyard) elevation is five bays and over four storeys with a basement. The windows on the ground to second floors comprise horned six-over-six timber sliding sash windows and smaller three-over-three windows on the third floor. All are recessed with stone sills and flat gauged brick arches and a C21 stone stair to the door. The sixth (east) bay is three storeys of matching design with a fourth storey added in about 1985. The corresponding face of the three storey west bay is covered by the late-C20 range (excluded from the listing) that encloses the west end of the courtyard.The courtyard is covered by a C21 glazed diagrid roof (excluded from the listing).

INTERIOR: on the ground floor the west room of the principal part has full height panelling with in-built glazed cabinets to the wall adjoining the stairwell, under-stair cupboard with three panel door, chimney piece and grate, modillion cornice, dado, skirting, architraves, and window linings. The east room has similar decorative features but has lost its panelling and its fireplace is covered over. The adjoining rooms within each wing retain fewer historic decorative features, but the eastern room retains its cornice, dado, skirting, architraves, and window linings.

On the first, the western room adjoining the staircase retains a chimneypiece. Cornices, dados, skirtings, architraves, and window linings survive throughout this and the second floor.

Most of the panelling and window linings on the third floor appear to be late C20. Parts of the roof structure are visible.

The central staircase from ground to third floor has a closed string and slender columnar newel posts, upswept handrails, and column and vase balusters. Original doorcases with panelled doors survive within most of the stairwell. The full height panelling is understood to have been reinstated in the late C20.