32, D'Arblay Street

WESTMINSTER No 32 TQ 2981 SW 57/107 D'Arblay Street II Terraced house with later shop. Mid C18. Yellow stock brick with red brick dressings. 3 storeys and cellar. 2 windows. Ground floor with C20 wooden shopfront. Gauged red brick flat arches to recessed sashes with original glazing bars. Stone sills. Rebuilt parapet. Interior retains much of its original plan form and detail. Some panelling at rear of C20 shop and boxed over access to cellar. Original dog leg stair throughout full height of house with turned balusters (except one turn from 1st floor), column newels and moulded handrails. Stairwell with most of original panelling and cornices. 1st floor rooms with panelling, cornices and panelled partition with panelled door having H hinges. 2nd floor front room mostly panelled; 3rd floor front room panelled and rear room partition to stair. Some original doorcases. stepping outwards, then a fairly shallow cornice with prominent mutules with round ornaments cut into it. Door surround to corridor richly carved with acanthus leaves, frieze over with mask in high relief and cornice above. Some C20 partitioning. 2nd and 3rd floor front rooms with good fire surrounds. Attics altered in C20. Basement with section of early C18 studded dado.

Listing NGR: TQ2947281178