Description

The following building shall be added:-

TQ 2378 Hammersmith Road

6/658 No 188

II

House, now club. Circa 1820, altered C1850-60. Gault brick, slate roof, behind parapet, painted stone dressings.

Two storeys, attics and basements. 3 bays with lower 2 storey single bays added to each side. To rear, pair of 2 storey elliptical bays, partly obscured by ground floor extensions but surviving intact structurally. Front elevation. Central 3 bay section breaking forward slightly from shallow reveals. Upper storey central recessed semi-circular arch, containing central window. Margin glazed sashes, with bracketed sills and iron balustrades of C1850-60. Similar windows to right extension. Central paired 2-panelled doors beneath plain mid C19 pointed arched fanlight. Porch of C1850-60. Paired columns with robust sub-classical mouldings, and matching engaged half piers to rear, support flat canopy with ornate iron balustrade above. To left and right entrance with similarly detailed surrounds, that to left altered. Moulded dented cornice and parapet probably mid C19.

Internal gable stacks to original end walls. Rear upper floor sashes with glazing bars. Attic dormers altered.

Interior. Slender stair with stick balusters moulded mahogany rail turned newels, one iron baluster moulded at the newels.

Reeded architraves, those to ground floor with mask at angles. Ground floor doors boarded over. At ground floor rear windows removed but parallel shuttering and casing remains intact. Similar shutters to front window. Upper floor windows intact, in panelled reveals and boxes. Moulded cornices of C1820 with some 1850-60 additions. Upper floor marble fireplace. With original grate and detailing Said to have been the premises of the constitutional club for C100 years.

Listing NGR: TQ2362178677

External Links

• Wikidata Q26353404

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