23, Kneesworth Street

23 Kneesworth Street is a Grade I listed building, originally remodelled around 1700 from an earlier house. It is constructed of red brick with a gabled old tiled roof and consists of two storeys and attics. The garden front features a moulded brick cornice and five sash windows set in flush architrave frames beneath flat arches. The central entrance has a two-fold, six fielded panelled door surrounded by narrow fluted Doric pilasters, topped with a running fret frieze, dentil and modillioned cornice, and a pediment. The street front includes two projecting chimney breasts and a modern doorway with a shell hood supported by consoles and fluted Doric pilasters, along with modern "Queen Anne" style windows and a north wing. Inside, the ground floor has an early 18th-century room with ovolo panelled walls, a semi-circular shell-headed niche, and an original marble chimneypiece. The staircase features a central newel, and there are some stop-chamfered ceiling beams. This building was part of the Royal Palace inhabited by James I and Charles I.