115, Harley Street W1

TQQ 2881 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER HARLEY STREET , Wl 45/15 (West side) 10.9.54 No. 115 G.V. II* Terraced town house. c.1777, Portland Estate development, probably by John White in partnership with the plasterer Thomas Collins (associates of Sir William Chambers). Stock brick with channelled stucco ground floor, slate roof. 4 storeys, basement and dormered mansard. 3 windows wide. Broad semicircular arched doorway to left in Coade stone vermiculated surround with head keystone; panelled door side lights with entablatures, recessed doorhead, under fanlight, as Venetian window composition. Recessed sashes, under flat gauged arches to upper floors; 1st floor plat band. Parapet with coping. Cast iron c.1840 bombé balcony across 1st floor. Cast iron area railings with plumbed spike finials. Fine interior typical of these 1st rate 1770s Harley Street speculative houses, elaborated above the norm; arched hallway and top lit stone geometrical staircase with lyre-scroll wrought iron balustrade, swag ornamented skylight drum; plasterwork friezes and ceilings with flute and patera and wreath and garland motifs; stucco mythological relief medallions, a la Chambers, framed by garlands, over principal inlaid statuary marble chimneypieces; enriched shutter panels; mahogany doors; etc.

Listing NGR: TQ2856181912