55, Grays Inn Road

This is a terraced house with a later shop, likely built around 1714. The shopfront was added in 1882. It is constructed of multicoloured stock brick with red brick dressings; the rear facade is of brown brick with a plain brick band at first floor level, and a rendered closet wing. The building is two rooms deep, including the closet wing, and extends over four storeys plus a basement.

The exterior features three windows and a blind half-window. The late 19th-century shopfront has green-tiled pilasters flanking a six-panelled house door with a fanlight and plate glass windows, incorporating part-glazed panelled doors. A horizontal strip of small panes of coloured glass sits above the shopfront. Enriched console fascia brackets display the date and a shell motif. Gauged red brick flat arches are above the sashes; the first floor windows are early 19th century sashes with reeded boxes having rectangular stops. The second-floor sashes are slightly recessed with exposed boxing, while the third-floor windows are similarly recessed. A parapet tops the building. The rear facade includes a sliding sash window to the third floor of the closet wing.

The interior front door leads to a short wainscotted passage, opening to a round-arched lobby with a panelled dado and an unusual early 19th-century dado rail. An original dog-leg staircase has a square newel post, twisted balusters, and two finials, rising from the ground to the second floor. The stairwell is panelled with a dado to the first floor, followed by a moulded dado rail. Original stairs continue to the third floor and basement. The front room on the first floor features a bolection moulded door frame to the landing, a bolection moulded dado, and a box cornice. An alcove is to the right of the chimney breast, with plain panelling above the dado and a small wall cupboard. The rear room on the first floor is simply panelled with a dado rail and box cornice, with a corner chimney breast. The closet wing has plain panelling, a section of moulded dado rail, a box cornice and an original bolection moulded panelled door with H-hinges. Second-floor front and rear rooms have moulded dado rails. The rear room on the third floor has an early 19th-century reeded door frame. Shutters are present on most windows, and most chimney breasts contain 19th-century cast-iron fire grates.