27, Southampton Street Wc2

No. 27 Southampton Street is a substantial terrace house built between 1706 and 1708, with alterations made to the front in 1871. The building is constructed of brown brick, featuring fine rubbed brick dressings and painted stone on the stuccoed ground floor, topped with a slate roof. It stands four storeys tall, with a basement, and is four windows wide.

The ground floor, which was refaced in 1871, has a channelled stucco finish and includes an architraved doorway on the right with a cornice supported by consoles. There are three close-set ground floor sash windows, each set in architraves with panelled friezes and cornices. The first floor features 19th-century plate glass sashes that are recessed under flat gauged arches, while the second and third floors retain slightly recessed glazing bar sashes in exposed box frames, also under flat gauged rubbed arches with triple brick key blocks. The front of the building is framed by channelled block quoin pilasters made of exposed red brick above the ground floor stucco. It has a stucco cornice over the first floor and stuccoed sill courses on the second and third floors, culminating in a deep stucco entablature and parapet. Above the doorway is a figured bronze memorial tablet from 1901, commemorating the residence of the actor David Garrick from 1749 to 1772. There are also 19th-century cast iron railings enclosing the area.

Inside, the house retains much of its original panelling. The door from the hall to the front room is framed in a finely carved architrave with an enriched inswept frieze and cornice, likely an improvement made during Garrick's time. The hall ceiling features enriched plasterwork, and there is a pilastered archway with an archivolt and panelled soffit leading to the inner hall, which has a fully panelled stair compartment. The spacious staircase rises in straight flights around a narrow open well, featuring a curtail, cut and carved bracketed string with three twisted balusters per tread (two per tread and simpler mouldings above the second floor). The handrail is ramped and carved, supported by Corinthian column newels, with the dado ramped in parallel with panelled pilasters. The main front room was altered in 1945 and is lined with painted panelling of early 18th-century character. The basement contains an ornamental lead rainwater tank dated 1710.