39, Craven Street Wc2

TQ 3080 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER CRAVEN STREET, WC2 83/23 9.1.70 No. 39

G.V. II

Terraced town house. c.1731 with c.1792 alterations. Brown brick with red brick window dressings, channelled stucco ground floor, slate roof. 4 storeys (top floor c.1792 heightening), C.19 dormered mansard, and basement. 4 windows wide. Square 3 room plan with front compartment staircase to 1st floor and secondary stairs. Elliptical arched doorway in 2nd bay from right, in plain stucco surround, recessed panelled door and fanlight. Recessed plate glass sashes under flat gauged red brick arches. Cornice-band finishing off ground floor stuccowork; parapet with coping. 1st floor geometrical pattern cast iron balconettes. Cast iron area railings with urn finials. Interior largely intact with fielded panelling and moulded cornices; front compartment staircase has narrow oblong well, cut and carved string with the turned balusters finishing in circular cluster on the curtail, Doric column newels also spacing landing balusters, panelled dado to stairwell wall and cove to ceiling; the rear stairs have narrow open well, 2 turned balusters per tread; the doors to main 1st floor rooms slightly bowed, in fret-carved architraves, etc. Part of the Craven family's C.18 development of their Brewhouse estate, laid out by Flitcroft.

Survey of London; Vol. XVIII.

Listing NGR: TQ3021180424