Royal Intitute Of British Architects Drawings Collection

TQ 2781 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PORTMAN SQUARE, Wl 54/46 (north side) 10.9.54 No. 21 (R.I.B.A. Drawings Collection) G.V. I End of terrace town house. c.1772, by James Adam for the collector William Loch of Norbury; retaining fine Adam interiors. Brown brick; concealed slate roof. Elevation designed to form one composition with No. 20 (Home House) q.v. 4 storeys (attic storey an addition) and basement. 3 windows wide, with 5-window return with entrance to Gloucester Place (canted bay to north). Semicircular arched doorway with side lights and fanlight under stucco Doric porch, to return. Ground floor sashes set in blind arcade continued from No. 20, with same stucco roundels in spandrels; 1st floor French casements to Portman Square and glazing bar sashes to upper floors, all under flat gauged arches. Guilloche bands, garland and paterae panels and cornice as on No. 20; the attic storey with crowning cornice but without balustraded parapet. Later C.19 cast iron balcony to 1st floor. Similar details to return. Cast iron area railings with urn finials. Interior retains elegant wrought iron staircase balustrade in top lit well; vaulted and apsed anteroom with Venetian window and back drawing room on 1st floor retain painted and stuccoed interiors; door furniture; chimneypieces etc.

Listing NGR: TQ2798681308