105-115, Baker Street W1 London, England, UK

Listed Building Description

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TQ 2881 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER BAKER STREET, W1 43/7 24.6.83 9.1.70 (No 109) Nos. 105 to 115 (odd). 24.6.83 II GV

Terrace of town houses with some later shop fronts inserted. c.1789 Portman Estate development; Nos. 105 and 111 facades rebuilt in facsimile. Yellow stock brick with Coade stone dressings; slate roofs. Symmetrical, finely proportioned terrace with Nos. 105 and 115 as slightly advanced terminal pavilions. 4 storeys, including attic storey, and dormered mansards to Nos. 105, 111 and 113. Each front 3 windows wide except for 4-window front of No. 111. Nos. 107, 109 and 115 retain original entrances with panelled doors, half columns and delicately patterned fanlights, recessed in semicircular arched openings with Coade, vermiculated quoins, guilloche imposts, vermiculated spaced voussoirs and mask keystones. Upper floors have recessed glazing bar sashes, under flat gauged arches on 2nd and 3rd floors, those on 1st floor semicircular arched and recessed for one order with linking impost string and sill band creating arcade effect. Anthemion ornamented band course over 2nd floor; crowning mutule cornice and blocking course. No. 109 has delicate cast iron balcony to 1st floor. The terrace balances Nos. 94 to 114 and 118 to 124 (even) q.v., opposite.

Listing NGR: TQ2792581873