23, Nassau Street W1

TQ 2981 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER NASSAU STREET W1 (west side)

46/25 No 23 10.9.54 - II

Terrace house. c1770-80. Brown brick with rusticated stucco ground floor, slate roof. 4 storeys. 3 windows wide. Entrance to left with fine wooden doorcase of engaged Doric columns, triglyph dosserets and mutule pediment, framing 6-panel door with fanlight; rustication struck to ground floor flat window arches. Upper floors have recessed sashes, no glazing bars, under flat gauged arches. Parapet with coping. Interior has plain panelled ground and 1st floor front rooms with fluted friezes and sharply profiled cornices; geometrical staircase with enriched S pattern wrought iron balusters, etc ... No 23 was the residence of James Rennell, geographer, in 1792 (GLC plaque). The doorcase, of superior quality in its proportions, would seem to relate to the, now demolished, contemporary houses by Chambers in Berners Street.

Listing NGR: TQ2922381607