5, Old Compton Street

OLD COMPTON STREET TQ 2981 SE 58/101 No 5 II House, now restaurant and flats. Late C17, early C19 and later alterations. Colourwashed brick facade, rear wall in early brickwork. Tiled mansard roof, behind parapet to front. Central brick stack. 4 storeys, raised from three. Ground floor doorway with moulded architrave beneath overlight; semi-circular blind fanlight above. Restaurant window and entrance. First floor pair'of --casements, 2nd floor pair of sashes, upper floor tall narrow sashes to each side of paired sash. Rear wall, extending behind general building line, of original early stock brickwork, but with Fletton returns. First floor flush frame windows with later sashes. Interior: Remains of stair rising against stack have moulded ramped rail, turned newels, stick balusters, some matchboard panelling to stairwell and to upper floor room, some now boarded over. Notable for the survival of the early vernacular plan form in the area, said to retain some timber framing.

Listing NGR: TQ2987881074