31, Weymouth Street W1

TQ 2881 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER WEYMOUTH STREET, Wl 45/45 (South side) No 31 G.V. II Terraced town house incorporating mews entrance. 1912-13 by Belcher and Joass and in this case essentially a Joass design. Portland ashlar facing; slate roof. Neo Grec details, relatively unusual for a domestic elevation. 3 storeys and dormered mansard with basement. 3 windows wide. Central projecting porch with slender columns of the Tower of the Winds order. Full height slightly canted, bays, to left and above mews entrance to right and shallow recessed square headed windows to centre, that on 1st floor with open pediment on brackets; all casemented with glazing bars, those in canted bays with thin ashlar dividers and transoms, the upper storey windows with keyblocks to heads. Deep 1st floor plat band with Greek fret ornament; the canted bays are finished off with honeycombed parapets and the centre rises sheer to parapet coping. Part of the Portland (Howard de Walden) Estate's early C20 attempt to restore the residential character of an area deemed too professional.

Listing NGR: TQ2867581811