23, Wimpole Street W1

No. 23 Wimpole Street is a terraced town house built around 1770 as part of the Portland Estate development. The building is constructed of stock brick with a channelled stucco ground floor and features a slate roof. It stands four storeys tall with a basement and has a three-window wide front that lacks stylistic ornamentation. To the right, there is a semicircular arched doorway with a panelled door that has a rosette-decorated head under a fanlight. The ground floor has recessed sash windows with intact glazing bars, which are set under flat gauged arches on the upper floors. A stucco string course runs above the ground floor stuccowork, and the building is topped with a parapet that has coping. A late 19th-century cast iron balcony extends across the first floor, and the area railings are adorned with tasselled spearhead finials. Inside, the house retains a stone staircase with a wrought iron scrolled balustrade, along with some plasterwork and carved marble chimneypieces.