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© Mr Anthony Rau
IoE Number:
208513
Location:
PART OF ROYAL INSTITUTION, 20 ALBEMARLE STREET W1
WESTMINSTER, CITY OF WESTMINSTER, GREATER LONDON
Photographer:
Mr Anthony Rau
Date Photographed:
07 January 2005
Date listed:
09 January 1970
Date of last amendment:
09 January 1970
Grade
I
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TQ 2980 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER ALBEMARLE STREET W1
70/20 No 20 (part of Royal
9.1.70 Institution)
GV I
Terrace house, late C18, remodelled internally early and late C19.
Yellow stock brick, slate roof. 4 storeys, basement and dormered
mansard. 5 windows wide. Altered ground floor with 3 bay early to
mid C20 shop front and semicircular arched doorway to right with
fanlight, in stucco surround with consoles carrying entablature. Upper
floors have revealed sash windows, no glazing bars, under flat gauged
arches. Moulded stone cornice over 2nd floor. Parapet with coping.
Area railings of cast iron with urn finials. Early C19 interior with
cornices, doorcases, stone staircase with wrought iron balustrade,
chimneypiece with Wedgwood plaque brought in from No 32 Soho Square,
Sir Joseph Banks' house. No 20 was incorporated into the Royal
Institution in 1894.