124 AND 126, HOXTON STREET N1

HOXTON STREET 1. ------------- 5013 Nos 124 and 126 TQ 3383 30/99 II

1. Probably 4th decade of C18. Pair of substantial houses, each 3 windows wide and with 3 storeys above a high basement. Stock bricks with red dressings. Cambered arches to windows. Moulded stone cornice below top storey to parapet to hipped, tiled roof, that to No 126 now coursed with metal sheeting. Some sashes altered. No 126, the larger house, retains a good early C19 stone entrance doorway with engaged Doric columns within a single storeyed shop built over the front garden. No 124 has been similarly extended and is said to retain a timber doorcase with fluted pilasters and carved brackets supporting its cornice. The interior of No 124 is said to be altered. No 126 retains original panelling and joinery of good quality to its entrance passage and stair compartment, the stair having shaped ends to the steps, column newels with ball-finials and 3 twisted balusters per bead (now coped in). An uncertain amount of original panelling and joinery survives above the ground storey, mostly boarded over. Well finished rear elevations with some alterations.

Listing NGR: TQ3328083156