49, Lambs Conduit Street

CAMDEN

TQ3082SE LAMB'S CONDUIT STREET 798-1/96/1006 (West side) 14/05/74 No.49

GV II*

Terraced house. c1720, refronted early C19. Yellow stock brick with stucco dressings. Double depth plan with closet wing. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys and cellars. 2 windows. Late C20 plate glass shopfront with house door to left of 6 fielded panels with overlight. First floor has gauged brick flat arches to casements set in shallow round-arched recesses linked by stucco impost bands; continuous cast-iron balcony of intersecting design. 2nd and 3rd floors with gauged brick flat arches to recessed 4-pane sashes. 3rd floor sill level projecting painted wooden cornice; above, stucco cornice and blocking course. INTERIOR: has original plain panelled hall leading to plain panelled stairwell with dog-leg open string stair of twisted balusters (some replaced), scroll and rose carved brackets, fluted Corinthian column newels and moulded ramp handrail. At 1st floor, box cornice of landing continues under stair soffit. Top flight balusters of earlier design and have been lengthened and reset. 1st floor front room has fine moulded plaster ceiling with central high relief cupid with bow and arrow on low relief clouds set within a foliated roundel within a guilloche octagon; all surrounded by a moulded string with arabesque enrichment at angles and centres of sides. Modillion and rose box cornice. Casements with fielded panel shutters enriched with egg-and-dart moulding; carved surrounds of rose, shell and dart enrichment. Carved enrichment to shouldered fireplace with rose stops. Carved dado rail of egg-and-dart and Greek key design. Original doorframes and 6-panel doors, that to rear room with carved enrichment. Rear room has fine moulded plaster ceiling of central roundel with high relief human mask surrounded by low relief rays and clouds; arabesque enrichment at angles. Dentil box cornice. Complete plain panelling with moulded dado rail and angle fireplace. Closet wing plain panelled. 2nd floor front and rear rooms plain panelled with box cornices and original 2-panel doors. Rear room with angle fireplace. Plan form of closet remains.

Listing NGR: TQ3061281996