39, Craven Street WC2

39 Craven Street is a terraced town house built around 1731, with alterations made around 1792. The building features brown brick with red brick window dressings and a channelled stucco ground floor, topped with a slate roof. It stands four storeys tall, with the top floor added in the 18th century, a 19th-century dormered mansard, and a basement. The house is four windows wide and has a square three-room plan with a front compartment staircase leading to the first floor and a secondary staircase.

The entrance includes an elliptical arched doorway in the second bay from the right, surrounded by plain stucco, with a recessed panelled door and fanlight. The windows are recessed plate glass sashes set beneath flat gauged red brick arches. A cornice-band finishes the ground floor stuccowork, and there is a parapet with coping. The first floor features geometrical pattern cast iron balconettes, and there are cast iron area railings with urn finials.

Inside, the interior remains largely intact, showcasing fielded panelling and moulded cornices. The front compartment staircase has a narrow oblong well, a cut and carved string, and turned balusters that finish in a circular cluster on the curtail. Doric column newels space the landing balusters, and there is a panelled dado on the stairwell wall with a cove to the ceiling. The rear staircase has a narrow open well with two turned balusters per tread. The doors to the main first floor rooms are slightly bowed, set in fret-carved architraves. This house is part of the 18th-century development of the Craven family's Brewhouse estate, laid out by Flitcroft.