House in Albemarle Street
House in Albemarle Street
Record No
124502
Title
House in Albemarle Street
Description
Front elevation of 17 and 18 Albemarle Street, Piccadilly. Grade II listed, listing numbers 1209824 and 1066510, respectively. Both are early eighteenth-century, four-storey terraced houses, number 18 with a stuccoed front, number 17 in plain brick. Number 18 has balconettes with window boxes on the top two floors and cowls for extractor fans are fitted to the second-floor windows. Number 17 has wrought iron railings and a front door with a wooden carved architrave. The front of number 18 However, has been heavily modified with extravagant Rococo style wrought iron railings, a large window box above the ground floor and a shop front with hair products and dummy heads with wigs in the window. This is the celebrity hairdresser 'Raymond''s shop, or one of them. He was famous at the time and known as 'Mr Teasy-Weasy' and examples of his work are available on YouTube and later parodied in Monty Python. Outside is parked a Vauxhall Victor, registration TYU 165.
Date of execution
1957
Section
London Metropolitan Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Notes
96.0 ALB
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_436_57_3073
London picture map location
Exact
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