88, Harley Street W1

TQ 2881 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER HARLEY STREET, W.1 45/43 (East side) 10.9.54 No. 88 G.V. II* Terraced 1st rate town house. c.1774-76 Portland Estate development by John White. Stock brick with channelled stucco ground floor; slate roof. 4 storeys and basement. 3-window wide astylar front. Broad semicircular arched doorway to right; panelled door and sidelights in enriched jambs and cornice doorhead under plain fanlight. Recessed sashes, under flat gauged arches to upper floors. 1st floor plat band. Parapet with coping. Early to mid C.19 enriched cast iron balcony across 1st floor. Cast iron plumbed spike area railings. Fine interior with plasterwork ceilings in the Adam manner to 1st floor front and back rooms, with inset painted panels of roundel or oval form, fan motifs and palmette and urn friezes, probably the work of John Papworth; top lit stone geometrical staircase with anthemion and lyre pattern wrought iron balustrade; statuary marble chimney-pieces, mahogany doors; etc.

Listing NGR: TQ2863181801