The building was designed by Charles Worley in a Flemish renaissance style and built in 1892–93[1] as a speculation for Samuel Lithgow, whose legal practice was based in Wimpole Street and centred on Marylebone. The foundation stone was laid by his mother, Mary Mason Lithgow, in September 1892. When it was complete, Lithgow moved his business there and let some of the rooms to medical practitioners, but most of the building was used as a nursing home until 1940, when the proprietor, a Miss Lancaster, died.[2]
It was described in Nikolaus Pevsner's Buildings of England as a "somewhat ridiculous pink terracotta pile".[3]
wimpole, house, wimpole, street, group, grade, listed, town, houses, corner, wimpole, street, cavendish, street, city, westminster, london, building, designed, charles, worley, flemish, renaissance, style, built, 1892, speculation, samuel, lithgow, whose, lega. Wimpole House at 28 29a Wimpole Street is a group of Grade II listed town houses on the corner of Wimpole Street and New Cavendish Street in the City of Westminster London Wimpole House The building was designed by Charles Worley in a Flemish renaissance style and built in 1892 93 1 as a speculation for Samuel Lithgow whose legal practice was based in Wimpole Street and centred on Marylebone The foundation stone was laid by his mother Mary Mason Lithgow in September 1892 When it was complete Lithgow moved his business there and let some of the rooms to medical practitioners but most of the building was used as a nursing home until 1940 when the proprietor a Miss Lancaster died 2 It was described in Nikolaus Pevsner s Buildings of England as a somewhat ridiculous pink terracotta pile 3 References edit Historic England 28 29 and 29A Wimpole Street WI 1224874 National Heritage List for England Retrieved 12 October 2017 Wimpole Street and Devonshire Place University College London Retrieved 14 October 2017 Pevsner Nikolaus amp Bridget Cherry 2002 The Buildings of England London 3 North West New Haven amp London Yale University Press p 657 ISBN 0300096526 External links edit nbsp Media related to Wimpole House London at Wikimedia Commons51 31 08 N 0 08 54 W 51 51895 N 0 14843 W 51 51895 0 14843 nbsp This article about a London building or structure is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Wimpole House amp oldid 999420350, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
