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| English Heritage Reference: | 425827 |
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| RBKC Reference: | 249-/61/10020 |
| Property: | 107, 109 AND 111 OLD CHURCH STREET 107, 109 AND 111 |
| Street: | OLD CHURCH STREET , SW3 |
| Date: | 01/11/1993 |
| Grade: | II |
| Grouped: | GV |
| Description: | Terrace of three houses. 1914-5 by F E Williams of the firm Cox and Williams. Narrow hand-made bricks with exceptionally tall brick stacks, slate roofs.. No.109 handed to share common steps with No. 111, otherwise all have a long, narrow two-bay plan with a single room to the front, a deep bay to the rear, and a central stair and hall lit by an internal courtyard. This is a plan characteristic of Cox and Williams's work. 3 storeys, attic and basement. A single composition, the central No.109 steps forward under a rendered pediment set with an Adamnesque medallion and swag. The whole composition is held together by a very deep eaves cornice. All windows are lead lattice casements, save altered dormer to No. 109. Those to the first floor are a tripartite composition with central round-arched French windows, inspired by Norman Shaw, leading on to a wooden balcony featuring a turned baluster balustrade in unpainted timber. Ground floor windows have central projecting 3-light oriels. Nos. 107 and 109 have original 6-panel doors, square leaded top-lights and door furniture, all have panelled door surrounds and iron area railings. No.109 is denoted by a massive projecting sign in the form of a swan. No. 107 has internal fanlight to vestibule. The central hallway has an elaborate turned bluster closed-string stair with box room under lit by an oval leaded light. All the rooms have exaggeratedly concave moulded cornices. Interiors to Nos. 109 & 111 not inspected but said to be the same in style and similarly complete. Recommended as an important example of the work of these interesting and little-known architects, whose distinctive style is reserved for a select group of prestigious town houses. The whole forms an impressive and complete group, in its own right and in the context of its surroundings. Sources Chelsea Metropolitan Borough Council Minutes, 30 September 1914 The Builder, 27 August 1915 |
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