Shelley/Hornby House (London)

 1913_construction, Grade II Listed (UK), Neo-Renaissance (architecture)

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Town house. Built in 1912 to designs by Edward Prioleau Warren for Charles St John Hornby on the site of an earlier house of 1878 by Joseph Peacock .

MATERIALS: red brick laid in Flemish bond with Portland stone dressings. Welsh slate covered roofs replacing the original Westmoreland slate. Concrete floors.

PLAN: square in plan, of four storeys plus basement and attic. The entrance is on to Embankment Gardens and it adjoins number 2 to the west. Internally the principal rooms are arranged around a stairwell on the north side of the building.

EXTERIOR: designed in a late-C17 domestic style the two principal elevations face onto Chelsea Embankment (south) and Embankment Gardens (east). The north elevation opens onto the garden at the rear. Above a prominent modillion eaves cornice, the hipped roof has alternating segmental and triangular pedimented dormer windows to the south elevation and flat-roofed ones to the north and east elevations. There are rusticated stone quoins to the angles and a stone band below the third floor. The largely regular fenestration is of multi-paned timber sash windows in segmental arched openings with rubbed brick voussoirs and raised keystones. Cast-iron rainwater goods have initialled decorative hoppers also bearing the date ‘1913’.