22 AND 23, GROSVENOR SQUARE W1 (See details for further address information) is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Town mansion. 5 related planning applications.
22 AND 23, GROSVENOR SQUARE W1 (See details for further address information)
- WRENN ID
- white-brick-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1987
- Type
- Town mansion
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
22 and 23 Grosvenor Square is a town mansion built between 1906 and 1907, designed by Read and Macdonald. It has a main elevation facing North Audley Street and incorporates the building at number 43 North Audley Street. The building is constructed of Portland stone with a slate roof and exhibits a Free Classicism style incorporating English Baroque and French mid-18th century details. It is three storeys high, with a basement and a full attic storey above the entablature, topped with a dormered mansard roof. The design features nine windows across the front, with a slight asymmetry achieved by an extra bay to the north, creating a tripartite composition.
The ground floor is characterised by banded rustication. The central, slightly projecting two-storey bay contains the main entrance, which is a keystone-lintelled portal flanked by short screen walls ending in panelled piers with urn finials. A bay window is above the entrance, flanked by pairs of Ionic columns. Two-storey canted bays are situated on either side of the central bay, with prominent keystones over the ground-floor windows and first-floor windows, articulated by Ionic columns supporting entablatures and parapets. The bays between these canted bays incorporate pedimented cross-mullion windows. Shallow architraves frame the windows on the second and attic floors. A recessed wing, featuring similar details, has a canted end at the corner of the square, highlighted by an Ionic columned first-floor corner window. A two-storey and basement wing, with a balustraded parapet, extends to the north.
The interior has been altered, though some original ceilings and decorative elements remain on the first floor.
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