Listed building details

Location: Nos.1-8, 10-14 & 17-19 (Consecutive) and attached railings
Street: Park Village West
Grade: II*
Reference No: 798-1-128282
Date of listing: May 14 1974 12:00AM

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Description:
Group of 16 related houses. 1832-7. Picturesque layout and houses by John Nash, James Pennethorne and other assistants in the Nash office. For the Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues. All in stucco. EXTERIOR: Nos 1-7: c1832, probably by James Pennethorne. Terrace of double fronted houses with 2 houses at each end forming return wings (western wing to Albany Street). 2 storeys and basements. 3 windows each. Central doorways with four-centred arch, part-glazed doors flanked by columns supporting slated roofs forming porches and extending over flanking canted bays with 5-light transom and mullion windows. 1st floor with central 2-light casement flanked by 3-light casements. Cornice and blocking course. Tall stuccoed slab chimney-stacks. Nos 1 & 2 with attached stucco walls having trellis, grilled segmental-headed openings to light areas and pillars. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Nos 3-7, attached cast-iron railings on sleeper walls with piers. No.8: c1834-7 by Charles Lee for Joseph Baxendale. Slated roof with gables to 3 elevations. Asymmetrical villa. 2 storeys and attic. 3 windows. Ground floor of projecting, gabled right-hand 2 window bay, an open distyle-in-antis portico; panelled door with radial patterned fanlight. Architraved sashes. Bay at rear on cast-iron columns. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: cast-iron railings on dwarf wall. No.10: c1834-7 by Nash office for HC Cholmondeley. Slated hipped roof with projecting eaves. Villa with asymmetrical front facade. 2 storeys and semi-basement. 3 windows. Prostyle portico with panelled door and fanlight. To right, a chimney-stack rising from ground floor level. Architraved, recessed sashes. Right and left returns with canted bay windows; 2-storey canted bay window at rear. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings on sleeper wall with gate piers. No.11: c1834-7 by Nash office for A Duff. Restored c1975. Slated hipped roof with bracketed eaves. Tall, stuccoed slab chimney-stacks to right and left. 2 storeys and semi-basement. Symmetrical facade of 3 windows. Entrance in channelled stucco porch projection to left; round-arched doorway with radial fanlight and panelled door. Ground floor casements with cast-iron guards. 1st floor sashes with architraved heads.

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