Decorating Welbeck Street

Welbeck Street is a long, distinguished residential and professional street in Marylebone running north from Wigmore Street to Marylebone Road, lined with Georgian and early Victorian terraced townhouses interspersed with later mansion blocks, and long associated with medical consulting practices given its proximity to Harley Street. The street was laid out as part of the Portland Estate in the eighteenth century and retains much of its original stock-brick and stucco character, with imposing front doors, sash windows and iron railings that give it a formal, urbane quality. Today it mixes private residences, private medical practices and luxury serviced apartments.

The Georgian and Regency stock-brick and stucco townhouses on Welbeck Street require breathable lime-compatible exterior finishes, and the formal entrance halls with their original marble and plaster details demand meticulous preparation and high-quality oil-based or specialist paint systems.