49, Lambs Conduit Street

The building at 49 Lamb’s Conduit Street is a terraced house dating from approximately 1720, with a significant refronting in the early 19th century. It is constructed of yellow stock brick with stucco dressings, and has a double-depth plan with a projecting closet wing.

The exterior presents four storeys and a basement, with a two-window front. A late 20th-century plate glass shopfront occupies the ground floor, alongside a house entrance comprised of six fielded panels with an overlight. The first floor has casements set in shallow round-arched recesses, linked by stucco impost bands and supporting a continuous cast-iron balcony of intersecting design. The second and third floors have similar brick arches framing recessed four-pane sashes. A projecting painted wooden cornice runs along the third floor sill level, above which is a stucco cornice and blocking course.

The interior features a plain panelled hall leading to a plain panelled stairwell containing a dog-leg open string staircase with twisted balusters (some replaced), scroll and rose carved brackets, fluted Corinthian column newels, and a moulded ramp handrail. The first-floor landing retains an original box cornice. The front room on the first floor boasts a fine moulded plaster ceiling with a central high-relief figure of a Cupid aiming a bow and arrow at low-relief clouds, all set within a foliated roundel within a guilloche octagon, surrounded by a moulded string with arabesque enrichment. Modillion and rose box cornices are also present. The casements are fitted with fielded panel shutters enriched with egg-and-dart moulding, and have carved surrounds featuring rose, shell, and dart enrichment. The fireplace is similarly carved with rose stops. A carved dado rail of egg-and-dart and Greek key design is also noted. Original doorframes and six-panel doors are present, with the rear room door exhibiting carved enrichment. The rear room on the first floor has a fine moulded plaster ceiling featuring a central roundel with a high-relief human mask surrounded by low-relief rays and clouds, with arabesque enrichment. A dentil box cornice is also present. The room is complete with plain panelling, a moulded dado rail, and an angle fireplace. The closet wing is simply panelled. The second floor front and rear rooms are also plain panelled with box cornices and original two-panel doors. The rear room has an angle fireplace, and the plan form of the closet remains.