Mulberry House (36, Smith Square)

Description

Nos. 37 and 36, also bomb-damaged, were reconstructed in 1951 as flats and offices respectively. No. 37 is of 1925, by E.A. Remnant for Viscountess Grey of Fallodon. Its horizontals and general mood derive from Lutyens’s No. 36, of 1911 for Reginald McKenna of the Midland Bank. This is of thin grey brick with red brick dressings, Gibbs surrounds on the ground floor, and a continuous stone band like a tide-mark just below the piano nobile. Some interiors remain, e.g. the butler’s room, with reset panelling and Doric pilasters halved either side of the wall recesses. (Bradley & Pevsner, 2003, p.718)

Corner terraced town house. 1911 by (Sir) Edwin Lutyens. Grey brick with red brick and ashlar dressings, tiled roof. Restrained William and Mary/neo-Georgian. 3 storeys and steep dormered mansard. 3 windows wide with 7-window return to Dean Trench Street. Stone rusticated central doorway, with bolection cornice set over ground floor plat band, has glazed wrought iron grille door. Ground floor glazing bar sashes recessed in rusticated stone surrounds carried to plinth. 1st floor has tall flush framed glazing bar sashes in c.1700 manner, under red brick flat gauged arches and with red brick dressings carried down to ground floor plat band framing aprons below sills. Deep, moulded stone eaves cornice. The return has a 3 bay centre break with central doorway with similar stone dressings, rustications and fenestration, etc. Interior not inspected. (Historic England, list entry 1236248)

Bibliography

Bradley S & Pevsner N (2003) LONDON 6: WESTMINSTER. The Buildings of England. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Historic England.36, SMITH SQUARE SW1. [Online] Available from: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1236248

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Listing Grade

II

Listing Reference

1236248

Client

Rt Hon Reginald McKenna