36, Craven Street Wc2

No. 36 Craven Street is a terraced town house built in 1730, with alterations made around 1792. The building features brown brick with red brick dressings and a channelled stucco ground floor, topped with a slate roof. It has four storeys, with the top floor heightened in 1792, and includes a basement. The façade is three windows wide and has a closet wing plan. The doorway is located to the left and has an elliptical arched opening in a plain stucco surround, with a recessed panelled door and a plain fanlight above. The windows are recessed glazing bar sashes set under flat gauged red brick arches. A cornice-band finishes the ground floor stuccowork, and there is a parapet with coping. The first floor features a geometric patterned cast iron balcony, and there are cast iron area railings with urn finials.

Inside, the house retains many original features, including fielded panelling and cornices. There is a pilastered archway leading from the passage-hall to the stairwell, which is also panelled and features a dog leg cut and carved string staircase that changes to a closed string for the top flights. Each tread has three turned balusters, and the staircase is complemented by columnar newels. The interior also includes carved wood chimneypieces with pilastered jambs.

A plaque from the London County Council commemorates the residence of Benjamin Franklin, who was the Agent to the General Assembly of Pennsylvania from 1757 to 1772, and William Hewson, a surgeon, physiologist, and friend of Franklin, who lived there from 1770 to 1774. This house is part of the 18th-century development of the Craven family's Brewhouse estate, which was laid out by Flitcroft. It is graded I due to its historical associations.