93, Harley Street W1

TQ 2881 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER HARLEY STREET, W1 45/36 (West side) 14.3.66 No. 93 G.V. II Terraced corner 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. Bowed rear and wing with bowed re-entrant angle. 4 storeys and basement. 3 windows wide with 4-window return to Weymouth Street. Semicircular arched doorway beneath early to mid C.19 stucco Doric columned porch; panelled door, sidelights and fanlight. Recessed sashes, under flat gauged arches to upper floors. Stucco plat bands and modillion cornice. Early C.19 cast iron balcony of enriched slender baluster pattern across 1st floor. Cast iron area railings with urn finials. Fine interior elaborated on the norm typical of these speculative 1st rate houses of the 1770s in Harley Street; top lit geometrical stone staircase with anthemion-scroll wrought iron balustrade, decorated skylight drum; delicate flute and patera and wreath and garland plasterwork with stucco mythological relief medallions a la Chambers, framed by garlands, over inlaid marble chimneypieces and in hall; mahogany doors; etc.

Listing NGR: TQ2858881820