2-34, Grosvenor Gardens SW1

This is a grand terrace of houses, numbers 2 to 34 Grosvenor Gardens, constructed around 1868. The terrace was designed by Thomas Cundy III and is built primarily of stone, although number 2 is of red brick. The architectural style is French Renaissance. Numbers 4, 12, 20, and 32 project slightly forward and feature rusticated quoins and high mansard roofs. The terrace is four storeys high, with attic mansards and a basement. The ground floor is characterised by channelling. Projecting Ionic porches incorporate inset arches, and there’s a balustraded balcony to the first floor. The windows are square-headed on the ground and first floors, round-headed on the second, and have segmental heads on the third. Pedimented attic dormers and oval dormers are situated above. Cast iron balconies are present on the second floor, and window guards on the third. The chimneys are made of brick and are polychromed. A brick console cornice runs above the third floor, and there are iron ridge ornaments. Area balustrades are also present. A commemorative plaque from the Greater London Council is affixed to number 4, recognising that Colonel Pitt Rivers, an anthropologist and archaeologist, once resided there.