69 And Attached Garden Wall To North And East

House, now flats, comprising a main range of two storeys and basement in four bays, with a lower two-storey, two-bay right-hand wing set back, and a two-storey wing at the rear at right angles to the road.

Probably late 18th or early 19th century, extended after 1827, altered in the mid 19th century, and converted to flats in the early 20th century. Part of the Syon Park estate. Construction is plum brick in Flemish bond, except for the south-west elevation which is in English bond. The northern roadside elevation is rendered and lined as ashlar. The main range has a hipped slate roof with deep plain eaves; the right-hand and rear wings have pitched slate roofs.

The roadside elevation features a flat-roofed rendered porch with a plain parapet containing a pair of part-glazed doors with moulded lower panels, reached by stone steps between flanking stone parapets. Four 3 x 4 pane windows with slender moulded glazing bars are set in the main elevation—those in the left two bays are fixed, those in the right fixed as horned sashes. Basement windows with slender moulded glazing bars, some with engraved panes, are present, with a vertically boarded door to the area. A brick stack stands to the left of centre. The right-hand wing has similar horned sashes, two per storey, with a central brick stack.

The garden elevation displays four tall ground-floor 3 x 4 pane sashes with glazing bars set in deep moulded architraves under shaped canopies, and four first-floor 3 x 4 pane sashes with glazing bars under scalloped canopies. A broad garden door has a single horizontal moulded panel beneath a glazed section formed by four rectangular panes over a horizontal tripartite panel, with a trellis porch. The rear gabled wing has a similar first-floor window to the main range and a plain 4 x 4 pane ground-floor window under a flat brick arch. The irregular south-west elevation has some replaced windows.

Interior: The inner entrance has a shallow cyma-moulded architrave but no door. An elegant stair with slender iron balusters, two per tread, plain tread ends, and a moulded, ramped mahogany rail ascends through the hall—part of it is boxed in. The stair continues to the basement with stone steps. A dado rail continues through the hall and stairwell. An arch has been inserted over a replaced door to the ground-floor flat. Stone flag flooring with black lozenge insets is said to continue throughout the ground floor of the main range. The ground-floor and first-floor flats follow a similar plan with some inserted partitions. The first-floor flat retains a marble mantelpiece probably dating to the mid 19th century. Panelled doors have largely been replaced. The rear first-floor flat retains a plain mid-19th century painted mantelpiece. The door to the cellar is similar to the garden door. A plain four-panelled door is present in the basement.

Garden walls: The north-east boundary wall is built in plum brick in Flemish bond, with a curved corner to the road. The front, northern roadside wall is in stock brick with horizontal recessed panels between square piers with stone coping.

A building has stood on the site since at least 1748, as shown on Rocque's estate plan of 1748 and the Sauthier estate map of 1786. An 1827 plan clearly shows a building on the site of the rear wing with another building adjacent. The Tithe Map, based on the first edition Ordnance Survey but dated 1901, shows the full extent of the current buildings. The Third Duke, who inherited in 1817 and died in 1847, spent lavishly on the estate; the building would fit into this period of expansion.