No. 7 and Attached Railings

No. 7 Burlington Street is a house, later converted to flats, dating from approximately 1786, with alterations made in the 19th century. It is attributed to John Palmer. The front of the building is faced with limestone ashlar, while the rear is of ashlar and rubble construction. It has a double-pile, mansard roof covered with Welsh slate on the front and rear, with a plain verge on the right side. There are two ashlar stacks, featuring some early clay pots. A staircase is located to the rear.

The building is three storeys high, with an attic and basement, and has a single bay with a tripartite window arrangement. The first floor has three plate glass sash windows, narrower on the left and right, within a surrounding frame. The second floor has three similar sashes set in splayed reveals. The ground floor features two similar sashes to the right, with a continuous stone sill, and a six-panel door to the left. The door has flush reeded, fielded, and glazed panels, along with a 19th-century knocker in a chamfered plain reveal. There is one step leading to a pennant-paved crossover with a 19th-century cast iron footscraper. The basement has two six/six sash windows in plain reveals with a continuous stone sill; an infilling ashlar with a plank door and a re-used six-pane sash with a lead roof projects above, with no area steps. A double dormer is also present with plate glass sashes. A weathered sill band runs along the first and second floors, and there is a moulded eaves cornice and coped parapet. A lead hopperhead at the eaves is shared with No. 6 Burlington Street. The rear elevation features a six/six sash to the ground floor, and two/two and four/four sashes above, along with one and one and a half-storey extensions. Another lead hopperhead is situated at the eaves to the left. The interior has not been inspected.

Attached to the property are wrought iron railings and a gate with urn tops and urn finials on the left and in the centre, missing on the right. These are supported by limestone bases. The building’s development was linked to Portland Place, with associated properties including numbers 12-15 Burlington Street, 1-4 Portland Place, and 17-20 Portland Place, built on leasehold land. This land was demised to John Hensley for three lives by the legatees of Morford’s Estate on 30 March 1782, and subsequently let out on building leases in 1785. The freehold land was conveyed through various transactions between 1772 and 1783.