18, Buckingham Street Wc2

TQ 3080 NW and SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER BUCKINGHAM STREET, WC2 72/156 ;83/7 24.2.58 No. 18

G.V. II*

Terrace town house. 1675-76 with early C.18 remodelling; facade rebuilt in replica 1960-66; part of Barbon's development of the York House estate. Brown brick with red brick dressings, slate roof. 4 storeys, basement and dormered mansard. 3 windows wide with giant quoin pilasters flanking. Doorway to right with panelled door and delicate late C.18 radial ironwork to fanlight, in fine early C.18 wood doorcase with panelled reveals and soffit, flanking fluted Corinthian pilasters, architrave frieze broken over capitals, elaborately pierced and carved console brackets supporting large cornice-hood also with panelled soffit. Recessed glazing bar sashes in exposed box frames under segmental red brick arches, deep red brick dressings to each floor, the 1st floor windows with raised brick aprons. Brick gauged plat band over ground floor, moulded brick string as sill course to 2nd floor and stone cornice below attic storey; parapet with coping. Wrought iron area railings with pommel-vase finials and good scrollwork flanking doorway with link extinguishers. The interior alterations and rebuilding have retained/reset some of the fielded panelling and moulded cornices, the fluted Doric pilaster hall screen and fine staircase with cut and carved strings, panelled soffit, 3 twisted balusters per tread, Corinthian column newels and moulded handrail swept over them, etc.

Survey of London; Vol XVIII.

Listing NGR: TQ3034480504