34-38, Tavistock Street WC2

34 to 38 Tavistock Street are terrace houses with shops, rebuilt around 1733. They are constructed of stock brick and have slate roofs, standing three storeys tall with an attic storey, although Nos 34 and 36 have been largely rebuilt. The frontages are three windows wide for Nos 34 and 36, and two windows wide for No 38.

The ground floor shop fronts feature: No 34 has an early 19th-century pilastered shop front with a panelled door to the right and three windows between the pilasters, topped with an entablature-fascia; No 36 retains its least altered shop front with a panelled house door to the left and two small-paned display windows flanking a panelled shop door, all framed by pilasters under an entablature-fascia; No 38 has a partly altered early 19th-century shop front that includes a house door to the right in a wooden frame with an entablature-fascia.

The upper floors have recessed glazing bar sash windows. A painted stone or stucco cornice runs below the attic storey, with a parapet that has coping; No 38 features a second-floor sill band. Between Nos 34 and 36, there is a reset date tablet inscribed "Yorke Street 1636". Gothic cast iron guard rails are present at the attic windows of No 36.

The interiors of Nos 34 and 38 have dog leg staircases with some turned and twisted balusters still intact, along with elements of panelling. The best-preserved interior is in No 36, which has a passage hall opened up by an early 19th-century elliptical arch with Grecian detail and a well-crafted cut and carved string staircase featuring two twisted and turned balusters per tread on the main floors, with plainer turned balusters on the upper flights and Doric column newels. The stairwell is fully panelled, and the first-floor front room is also fully panelled with a later enriched plaster cornice, while the back room retains a box cornice. The second-floor rear room is intact with an original veined marble chimney piece in an angled chimney breast. Notably, No 36 was the residence of Thomas de Quincey while he was writing his "Confessions of an English Opium Eater".