72, Park Street W1

No. 72 Park Street is a terraced house built around 1729 by bricklayer John Barnes. It is virtually unaltered except for an early 19th-century addition of a top storey. The house is constructed of brown brick with red brick dressings and stands four storeys tall with a basement, featuring three windows across its front. The entrance is located on the left and includes a panelled door framed by a carved wood architrave, which has scroll work console brackets supporting a prominent cornice and a square tablet-key above the door for the street number. The windows are slightly recessed box framed glazing bar sashes set under flat gauged red brick arches. The building has a parapet with coping and wrought iron area railings topped with urn finials. Inside, the house is fully panelled and includes a passage-hall and a dog leg staircase with a closed string, turned balusters, and column newels. The panelled rooms feature box cornices and bolection chimney pieces, and there is a rear closet wing with angle fireplaces.