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| Tarrant Place prepared the way for another subtle piece of urban planning by Terry, which enabled a substantial new building to be inserted into a well-known conservation area just south of Belgrave Square, laid out beginning in 1826 from designs by George Basevi. The site backs on to Belgrave Mews South, which has, of course, a far more modest character than Upper Belgrave Street. Thus, at the back of the site, the new building has a simple brick front of three stories plus a roof, closing the views eastward along the mews. To Belgrave Place, by contrast, it presents a five-bay stuccoed front with a Greek Doric porch, a hand-some façade that also acts as a focal point in views west along Chester Street. Terry has thus provided a clever way of improving the frequently jerky street line of Belgravia with a new house that looks as though it has always been there and does not compromise the cottagey nature of the mews behind it. |
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