Wimpole House at 28–29a Wimpole Street is a group of

Grade II listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

town houses A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

on the corner of

Wimpole Street Wimpole Street is a street in Marylebone, central London. Located in the City of Westminster, it is associated with private medical practice and medical associations. No. 1 Wimpole Street is an example of Edwardian baroque architecture, compl ...

and

New Cavendish Street New Cavendish Street is a street in the City of Westminster, London, that runs from Marylebone High Street in the west to Cleveland Street in the east. The street was built in 1775 and named after the Cavendish family, who were related to the g ...

in the

City of Westminster The City of Westminster is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and London boroughs, borough in Inner London. It is the site of the United Kingdom's Houses of Parliament and much of the British government. It occupies a large area of cent ...

, London. The building was designed by

Charles Worley Charles H Worley (1853–1906) was a British architect. Early life Allinson puts forward that Charles Worley was the son of the architect Robert James Worley (1850–1930), of the architectural practice Worley & Saunders, who was "involved ...

in a Flemish renaissance style and built in 1892–93 as a speculation for

Samuel Lithgow Samuel Lithgow (1860 – 9 September 1937)"LITHGOW, Samuel"
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, 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.Wimpole Street and Devonshire Place.
University College London. Retrieved 14 October 2017. It was described in Nikolaus Pevsner's ''Buildings of England'' as a "somewhat ridiculous pink terracotta pile".

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Grade II listed houses in the City of Westminster Marylebone Buildings by Charles Worley Houses completed in 1893 {{London-struct-stub