Oxford University Press

CITY OF WESTMINSTER DOVER STREET, W1 80/78 81/28 No 37 (Oxford University Press)

In the description the date '1772' shall be amended to read; ' 1772, and altered 1909-22 by Smith and Brewer'.

The following shall be added to the end of the description; 'and decorative oeil-de-boeuf window to rear of upper floor. Smith and Brewer added two storeys and designed panelling etc. to arched entrance corridor.

TQ 2980 SW, 2880 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER DOVER STREET Wl 80/78 ; 81/28 No 37 (Oxford University 24.2.58 Press)

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Terraced town house. 1772. By Sir Robert Taylor as the West End residence of the Bishop of Ely. Portland stone, slate roof. Markedly Palladian composition. 3 storeys (with lofty piano nobile), basement and dormered mansard. 3 windows wide. Rusticated ground floor with rocky vermiculation to piers and arches of arcaded open- ings including entrance to right with panelled studded door, side lights and fanlight. The ground floor sash windows are semicircular arched within the arcade. The 1st floor windows are set in Corinthian columned and pedimented aedicules with blind balustrades. Above them are placed 2 paterae and a central medallion with bishop's mitre; square attic windows - all sashes revealed with glazing bars. Plat band over ground floor and balustraded parapet over modillion cornice. Fine cast iron area railings, the standards surmounted by seated lions to the designs of Alfred Stevens, 1852. Interior much altered but retains Taylor's dining room - now the front hall - with plaster ceiling and chimney piece, the glazed dome over the former stairwell which originally had an apsed end, part of the original S pattern wrought iron staircase balustrade including the altered balcony, richly carved doorcases, Venetian window with carved columns etc.

Listing NGR: TQ2899880474