34, Essex Street WC2

No. 34 Essex Street is a terrace house built around 1675 to 1682 as part of the Barbon development, with the upper floors likely receiving an 18th-century refacing. The building features amber stock brick and a stuccoed ground floor, topped with a slate roof. It has three storeys, a basement, and a dormered mansard. The entrance is located to the left and includes a panelled door with a fanlight set in a semicircular arched opening. The recessed sash windows are situated under flat, gauged red brick dressings on the jambs. A stucco plat band runs above the ground floor, and there is a parapet with coping. Wrought iron railings enclose the area. The rear elevation has a closet wing adorned with fine red brick dressings, a cornice, and a parapet. Inside, the building retains a passage-hall with a pilastered archway leading to an elegantly designed staircase compartment. This features an open well, cut string stairs with slender turned balusters arranged three per tread, a swept and ramped handrail, and carved bracket tread-ends, although only fragments of panelling and cornices remain.