J Evans And Attached Railings

CAMDEN

TQ2982SW CONWAY STREET 798-1/93/278 (West side) 15/09/88 No.35 J Evans and attached railings

GV II

Terraced house and shop. Built c1793; shopfront of c1916; top 2 storeys rebuilt mid-C20. Flemish bond brick; roof not visible; brick stacks. Double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys. 2 windows and 2-window return (1 blind) to Warren Street. Fine dairy shopfront. "J. EVANS/DAIRY FARMER" is painted on gilded glass fascia above shopfront which has semicircular arch over 6-panelled door with decorative fanlight to left, and half-glazed door with overlight to street corner flanked by segmental-arched plate-glass shop windows which are set in a glazed blue tile surround with white tile panels beneath windows and Art Nouveau floral decoration to white tile strips flanking openings. Ground floor to right facing Warren Street has channelled stucco with 2 square-headed C20 casement windows. Flat brick arches to C20 casement windows on upper storeys. INTERIOR: shop has white glazed tile walls and original marble shop counter with hand-painted pastoral scenes set in blue tile frames beneath. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached cast-iron railings to areas. HISTORICAL NOTE: the Post Office Directory records the arrival of "J. Evans, dairyman" in 1916. The shop is one of the best surviving examples of a Welsh dairy, common in London in early C20 but now extremely rare. The tilework in this example is particularly attractive.

Listing NGR: TQ2902382155