Numbers 5-9 And Attached Railings To Number 8

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TQ2981NE PERCY STREET 798-1/99/1294 (South side) 14/05/74 Nos.5-9 (Consecutive) and attached railings to No.8

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5 terraced houses with later shops. 1764-1770, altered. Built by W Franks and W Reeves. Multi-coloured stock brick with slated mansard roofs and dormers. Stucco 1st floor sill and floor bands, except No.5. Stone cornices. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, attics and basements. 3 windows each; No.6, 2 windows. Gauged brick flat arches (mostly reddened) to recessed sash windows, most with original glazing bars. Parapets. No.5: rusticated stucco ground floor, now painted. C20 shop window. Round-arched doorway with fanlight and panelled door. No.6: rusticated stucco ground floor, now painted. C20 shopfrontage. Square-head doorway with rectangular fanlight and panelled door. No.7: rusticated stucco ground floor, now painted. C20 shop window with C19 filigree ironwork head. Square-headed doorway with fanlight and panelled double doors. 1st floor centre window elongated. No.8: painted ground floor. Round-arched doorway with panelled jambs, cornice-head, radial patterned fanlight and panelled door. 1st floor centre window elongated. No.9: painted ground floor. C20 ground floor frontage. Round-arched doorway with wooden doorcase; pilasters carrying enriched console-bracketed soffit; fanlight and panelled door. INTERIORS: not inspected but No.8 noted to retain panelled ground floor front room and hall. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings with torch flambe finials and cast-iron lamp brackets flanking entrance to No.8. (Survey of London: Vol. XXI, Tottenham Court Road and Neighbourhood, St Pancras III: London: -1949: 7-11).

Listing NGR: TQ2959881566