Numbers 131-137 And Attached Railings

CAMDEN

TQ2982SW WHITFIELD STREET 798-1/93/1719 (West side) 14/05/74 Nos.131-137 (Odd) and attached railings

GV II

Terrace of 4 houses and shops. Late C18, altered. Multi-coloured stock brick with later patching. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys and basements or cellars. 2 windows each. Gauged brick flat arches to recessed sashes. Parapets. No.131: wooden double shopfront, restored and altered, having small panes to windows and central double part-glazed doors and inswept frieze with modillion cornice. Square-headed house door to right with fanlight and panelled door. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings to areas. No.133: round-arched doorway with radial fanlight. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings to areas. Mostly rebuilt late C20; included for group value. No.135: wooden double shopfront with pilasters having palm leaf capitals carrying entablature with dentil cornice. Segmental bowed shopfront with panelled risers. Rectangular fanlight with radial pattern to central shop doorway; house doorway, to left, has 6-panelled door and overlight. No.137: wooden double shopfront, restored and altered, having C20 segmental-arched shop window glazing above original panelled risers and original entablature with dentil cornice and one remaining elaborate stucco console with winged human mask and rosette stop above. Central shop doorway panelled and part margin-glazed with overlight. House doorway with overlight to left, now blocked but overlight originally with cast-iron relief Classical lamp. INTERIORS not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: these houses and shops are, with Nos 159 and 161 Whitfield Street (qv), the only original buildings to survive of a terraced street, all with early shopfronts, associated with the former Fitzroy Market. (Survey of London: Vol. XXI, Tottenham Court Road and Neighbourhood, St Pancras III: London: -1949: 30-31).

Listing NGR: TQ2923182139