11, Long Street

1. 1042 LONG STRERT (East Side)

No 11 SU 0061 4/26 9.4.54.

II* GV

1. Former town house of Lansdowne family. Late C18 2 storeys. Painted stucco on projecting plinth. String at lst floor level with heavy moulded key pattern enrichment. Moulded stone and stucco cornice over frieze with small base moulding. Parapet with moulded coping. Slate roof. The central bay has a slight projection. 5 windows on 1st floor. 4 windows on ground floor and tall 6-panel central door with panelled door head enriched with small square plaques containing ovals and linked by swags. The outer ovals are decorated with trophies, the centre one with intertwined anchors. Radiating and wreathed arched fanlight of wrought iron with cast lead ornament. The door under portico of 4 Ionic columns and 4 wall pilasters, swag enrichment to necking, and entablature with laurel leaf enrichment to frieze, bracketed cornice and pediment with free swag enrichment in tympanum. Small contemporary extension to right hand slightly set back, same design but string in place of cornice, and one window on first floor, 2 panes wide. All first floor windows have delicate wrought iron balconies with case lead leaf, rosette and honeysuckle ornament. Balconies are segmental on plan. The house slightly set back and approached by 2 moulded stone steps. Contemporary wrought iron rails with small urn standards. Good contemporary scrapers. The interior has lost many of its original features but the hall retains a Greek Key frieze and has a panalled coved ceiling with 3 patterae. Garden wall with arcaded support to terrace at back. The street front is a fine graceful composition.

Nos 8 to 30 (consec) form a group.

Listing NGR: SU0054861246