42-48, Monmouth Street

CAMDEN

TQ3081SW MONMOUTH STREET 798-1/105/1138 (West side) 12/04/90 Nos.42-48 (Even)

GV II

Terrace of 4 houses with later shops. c1792-3. Brown stock brick with slate mansard roofs and dormers. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, attics and basements. 2 windows each. Nos 42 & 44 with late C19 wooden, pilastered shopfronts and panelled house doors with fanlights. Nos 42 and 48 C20 shopfronts. Gauged brick segmental arches to recessed 2 and 4-pane sashes on upper floors. Coped parapet. Rear elevations with wall stacks, 2 with angled flues and chimney surrounds; sashes with gate stops. INTERIORS: with closed string staircases having square section balusters, moulded handrails and simple Doric newels; top landing newels with extra Doric colonnette where handrails intersect. All with moulded wood architraves. No.42, alcove forming glazed china cabinet in front room. No.44, 1st floor with C18 marble fireplace, 2nd floor with cornice and late C18 fireplace, 3rd floor, late C18 fireplace. No.46 with plain dado panelling and matching door architrave, late C18 moulded plaster cornice in 1st floor front room. No.48, 1st floor rear left room, panelled dado and later C18 corner fireplace with dentil cornice. Front 1st floor room with panelled dado. HISTORICAL NOTE: these houses retain the scale and plot size and reuse features of earlier houses on the site erected by Thomas Neale.

Listing NGR: TQ3004681027