Decorating Melcombe Place

Melcombe Place is a wide and well-proportioned Victorian street forming part of the grand approach to Marylebone Station, flanked by substantial late-Victorian red-brick mansion blocks and commercial buildings that reflect the confident scale and ambition of the railway age in London. The street connects the Marylebone Road with Dorset Square, passing through one of the borough's most architecturally coherent Victorian streetscapes, and its buildings include fine examples of Queen Anne Revival brickwork with terracotta detailing. The area forms part of the Dorset Square Conservation Area.

The prominent red-brick and terracotta facades of Melcombe Place require specialist brick cleaning and masonry sealant work before any decorative painting is undertaken, and the street's position on a busy thoroughfare means that access planning and dust containment are essential considerations. Interior residential work in the mansion blocks here frequently involves communal staircase redecoration and the updating of individual flat interiors to a high letting standard.