2, Duke Street W1

No. 2 Duke Street is a terraced town house built around 1776 to 1788, as part of the Duke of Manchester's development of Manchester Square on Portman land. The building features multi-coloured stock brick with a channelled stucco ground floor and has a concealed slate roof. It stands four storeys tall with a basement and is four windows wide. The doorway is located to the left of centre and is square-headed, flanked by pilasters that support an entablature with a dentil cornice. It has a panelled door and a fanlight above. The upper floors have recessed sash windows under flat gauged red brick arches, and there is a stucco plat band at the first floor level. The parapet has stone coping, and there are cast iron area railings with urn finials. Inside, the house retains some fine plasterwork in the Adam style and an open well staircase with a wrought iron balustrade.