91, Harley Street W1

TQ 2881 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER HARLEY STREET, W1 45/42 (West side) No. 91 G.V. II Corner terraced house. c.1774-76 (altered mid C.19) Portland Estate development by John White in partnership with the plasterer Thomas Collins (associates of Sir William Chambers). Stock brick with heavily rusticated stucco ground floor; slate roof. 4 storeys, basement and dormered mansard. 4 windows wide with 3-window (2 blind) return to Weymouth Street. Semicircular arched doorway to left in rusticated and vermiculated surround; panelled door, side lights and fanlight. Recessed sashes, under flat gauged arches to upper floors, with stucco keystones to 3rd floor. 1st floor plat band and sill band; plat band to 2nd floor and block bracketed cornice over it; 3rd floor sill course; stone coped parapet. Similar details to return with mid C.19 stucco bow window added to ground floor and chimney stack shouldered up from parapet. Cast iron mid C.19 balcony across 1st floor on brackets. Cast iron plumbed spike area railings. Interior retains some elements of typical White-Collins plasterwork and top lit geometrical stone staircase with later iron balustrade; etc.

Listing NGR: TQ2860381773