37, King Street Wc2

No. 37, King Street is a terrace house rebuilt between 1773 and 1774, possibly by James Paine, and is designated a building of group value. The design is late Palladian and reflects Paine's style. The house is four storeys high with a basement, and has a facade of stock brick with red brick, stone, and stucco dressings, covered by a slate roof.

The ground floor is stuccoed, featuring a semicircular arched doorway on the left, accessed by steps. It has a recessed panelled door and a fanlight. A doorhead string acts as an impost over slender pilaster strips, and a similar frame appears over a wide, elliptically arched, later 19th century display window to the right. Elongated console brackets above each pilaster support the ground floor cornice, which also acts as the plinth to the first floor. The first floor has semicircular arched recesses containing recessed glazing bar sashes, each under a flat, gauged arch. The second floor features proportionately smaller recessed glazing bar sashes, set on a sill band. The third floor has a modified Diocletian window, with blind side lights, set within a large semicircular red brick arched recess rising from a band course. An open stone corniced pediment frames and crowns the whole with short returns of cornice on block brackets stopped against the Diocletian recess. This pediment feature is repeated in a simplified form to the rear, above a broad canted bay. The front has simple cast iron area railings, returning up the steps.

The interior includes a fine hall and staircase. The hall ceiling features three flat domes with bosses on panelled pendentives, divided by transverse arches on scrolled consoles. The staircase has a semi-elliptical plan with stone treads and balusters with a bombe, square section wrought iron design. The staircase rises to the second floor but continues through a galleried third-floor landing to a top flight, where the walls are finished with a modified Corinthian cornice featuring satyr masks over the modillions, and fluting and paterae to the corona. The second-floor landing has a fluted frieze, decorated with urns and vases, and the compartment wall has plain round-headed niches on each floor. The rooms retain little of their original decoration beyond enriched cornices and panelled shutters.