53, Wimpole Street W1

No. 53 Wimpole Street is a terraced town house dating from the 1770s, part of the Portland Estate development, likely designed by John White. The building is constructed of stock brick with a channelled stucco ground floor and features a slate roof. It stands four storeys high with a basement and has a three-window side front that lacks stylistic decoration.

The entrance boasts a broad semicircular arched doorway, which is adorned with stucco rustication and Coade guilloche patterned imposts. The door is panelled and flanked by sidelights and a fanlight in a plain Venetian style. The upper floors have recessed sash windows set beneath flat gauged arches. A plat band runs above the ground floor stuccowork, and the parapet is topped with coping. A Victorian cast iron balcony with a scroll pattern spans the first floor, and the area railings are fitted with plumbed spike finials.

Inside, the property retains several notable features, including a stone staircase with a wrought iron balustrade, decorative plasterwork, and statuary marble chimneypieces.