114-122, BRICK LANE

114-122 Brick Lane is a group of five terraced houses built in the early 18th century and refaced around 1795. They are constructed from yellow stock brick, with Nos 116 and 118 featuring later patching. The houses have slate mansard roofs with garret windows and stand three storeys tall, including garrets and cellars, with two windows each. Number 122 has a four-window return to Hanbury Street, with all windows blind except for one. The ground floors have 20th-century shopfronts, except for No 120, which has an early 19th-century bowed wooden shopfront supported by pilasters and featuring a fascia and cornice; its windows and door are boarded up.

There is a passageway between Nos 114 and 116 that has a partly obscured Victorian circular plaque dated 1797 above it. The houses feature gauged brick flat arches over mostly recessed sashes, with the second floor of No 122 having margin glazing. They also have parapets and original lead rainwater heads.

Inside, No 114 has an early 18th-century staircase with Doric newels, a moulded closed string, a column on vase balusters, and a moulded handrail. The stairwell has panelling, and the first-floor back room features early 18th-century panelling. The front room is panelled from around 1740 and has an unusual compound moulding at the junction between the timber panel and frame, with a dado rail designed as a plinth cornice. The shutter boxes project into the room to accommodate recessed box sashes combined with thin walls, supported by unique guttaed scrolls with a ramped down dado rail. Both rooms have full box cornices and an original six-panel door and frame. No 120 has a similar early 18th-century staircase. The interiors of Nos 116, 118, and 122 have not been inspected but may also be of interest.

The plaque above the entrance between Nos 114 and 116 likely commemorates the foundation of the Spitalfields Soup or Ladling Society, established in 1797 and operating from premises accessed via this entrance; the roof now belongs to No 112. The roof and plaque are remnants of early welfare provision in Spitalfields and reflect the decline of the weaving industry in the late 18th century in this area.