34, Essex Street Wc2

TQ 3180 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER ESSEX STREET, WC2 4/5 24.2.58 No 34 G.V. II Terrace house. c1675-82. Barbon development, the upper floors probably an C18 refacing. Amber stock brick with stuccoed ground floor, slate roof. 3 storeys, basement and dormered mansard. Entrance to left with panelled door and fanlight in semicircular arched opening. Recessed sash windows under flat, gauged, red brick dressings to jambs. Stucco plat band over ground floor and parapet with coping. Wrought iron area railings. Rear elevation has closet wing with fine red brick dressings, cornice and parapet. Interior retains passage-hall with pilastered archway to staircase compartment, notably elegant, open well, cut string stairs with slender turned balusters grouped 3 per tread,swept and ramped handrail and carved bracket tread-ends, otherwise only fragments of panelling and cornices etc.

Listing NGR: TQ3108280963