63 Monmouth Street

A terraced house, now a shop and offices, late C17, altered mid-C19, and restored and in part remodelled 1983-5 by the Terry Farrell Partnership as part of the regeneration of Comyn Ching Triangle.

MATERIALS: the building has a red brick facade in Flemish bond, and red and stock brick rear in English bond, with plain tiled roofs. To the rear it has stone paving and masonry parapet walls with steel rails.

The scale, forms and palette of materials and colours used in the new work complement and provide both a unifying identity and new vitality to the scheme, where traditional materials are interpreted in a forward-thinking way.

PLAN: a terraced house of three storeys with an attic and basement, and in two bays, with the entrance to the right. It is now part inter-connected with No 61 Monmouth Street.

EXTERIOR: the ground floor has a shop front, restored and in part recreated by Farrell, of five vertical lights with slender glazing bars, with a concave stall riser on brackets, and a renewed doorcase and part-glazed door, with a Farrell number plate above. The first and second floors have slightly recessed six-over-six pane sashes with slender glazing bars beneath shallow, cambered, brick arches. An added flat-roofed, three-light dormer is set back behind a rebuilt, plain brick parapet. There is a ridge stack between Nos 61 and 63.

REAR: the rear elevations enclose Ching Court, which slopes from N to S. Throughout, rear basement areas, clad in masonry, are set behind a shallow moulded masonry plinth with a tubular steel balustrade, with Farrell's signature reversed CC insignia.

The rear elevation of No 63 is in red-brown and stock brick, repaired and patched, and in four storeys plus a basement, and with a gabled parapet. The ground floor has six-over-six pane sashes with very slender glazing bars, painted black, beneath flat, gauged brick arches. The upper floor windows have segmental heads in C18 manner, and six-over-six panes on the first and second floors, and three-over-six above, with two-over-four and two-over-two lights to the left.

INTERIOR: the ground floor is a single commercial space, with No 61. It has a replica C18 stair, and the original roof trusses are exposed (AJ, 6 March 1985, 53).

NOTE: the mapping of the rear porches, parapet walls and railings is not drawn to scale.