776. House of St Barnabas, 1 Greek Street, Soho, London W1
British Listed buildings: Corner terrace house with Soho Square. c.1744-46 by Joseph Pearce, the interior fitted out with very fine plasterwork etc. for Richard Beckford, brother of the Alderman in 1754. This is a Grade I listed building.
www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vols33-4/pp88-106
The house has a plain and, for its period, curiously old-fashioned exterior, the design of which seems hardly to have felt the influence of the Palladian ideas which were well established by the 1740's and are evident in the internal finishings. A conceivable explanation is that the builder was trying to match his front to those already existing in the square, for Sutton Nicholls's view of 1727 suggests that at that date house-fronts of a similar pattern were still predominant. The interior of No. 1 Greek Street, finished in carved wood and moulded plasterwork, is one of the best examples of the mid eighteenth-century English Rococo style now surviving in London.
776. House of St Barnabas, 1 Greek Street, Soho, London W1
British Listed buildings: Corner terrace house with Soho Square. c.1744-46 by Joseph Pearce, the interior fitted out with very fine plasterwork etc. for Richard Beckford, brother of the Alderman in 1754. This is a Grade I listed building.
www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vols33-4/pp88-106
The house has a plain and, for its period, curiously old-fashioned exterior, the design of which seems hardly to have felt the influence of the Palladian ideas which were well established by the 1740's and are evident in the internal finishings. A conceivable explanation is that the builder was trying to match his front to those already existing in the square, for Sutton Nicholls's view of 1727 suggests that at that date house-fronts of a similar pattern were still predominant. The interior of No. 1 Greek Street, finished in carved wood and moulded plasterwork, is one of the best examples of the mid eighteenth-century English Rococo style now surviving in London.