No 7 Denmark Street

No. 7 Denmark Street is a three-bay, three-storey terraced house with an attic and basement, dating to the late 17th century. It is constructed of red brick with stucco to the ground floor, with timber windows and doors. The original late 17th-century floor plan survives above the ground floor, comprising a front and back room on each level, formerly heated by side-wall stacks with fireplaces set across the back corners. A dog-leg staircase is set against the opposing side wall, and a closet wing extends to the rear, along with several single-storey additions of probable 20th-century date.

The upper two storeys feature ranges of three six-over-six pane sash windows with exposed sash boxes, two of which have lost most of their glazing bars. The windows are topped with splayed brick arches featuring painted keystones, and there is a string course above the first-floor windows. Unusually for the street, the original ground floor arrangement of a door and two windows survives, though the brickwork is rendered and the window openings have been extended downwards to form half-glazed French windows. The original doorcase remains, with carved console brackets supporting a projecting pediment, and a large rectangular fanlight above the six-panel door.

The ground floor rooms have been opened into one another, and original features have been lost. However, elsewhere in the building, including the ground floor hall, a substantially complete late 17th-century interior remains, with alterations from the 18th and 19th centuries. Box cornices are widely present, and wall panelling reflects the house’s original hierarchy—from bolection moulding in the principal rooms to simpler timber boarding in the basement and attic. The front first-floor room has a particularly complete panelled interior with heavy bolection mouldings, and some panelling also survives in the closet wing. The basement staircase features a simple square newel and stick balusters, while the staircase from the ground floor upwards has a moulded closed string with barley-twist balusters, nearly complete throughout the building, with some missing balusters. Principal rooms retain panelled window shutters, and fireplaces of various dates survive, with several showing remnants of their original timber surrounds.

A brick outbuilding to the rear of No. 7 faces a small courtyard with informal additions. The outbuilding is single-storey with a part-pitched, part-flat roof, and has a wall built against its front elevation. Internally, the walls are bare brick, with a chimney stack against the back wall, and a large pitched skylight suggesting former workshop use.