26, Southampton Street WC2

26 Southampton Street is a substantial terrace house built between 1707 and 1708, with a shop front added in 1903. The building features brown brick with rubbed brick dressings and a slate roof, standing four storeys high and four windows wide, plus a blind half window to the left. The 1903 shop front includes a panelled door on the right, flanked by pilasters, and a three-light shop window on the left with slender Doric column dividers, an inswept fascia, and a moulded cornice.

The upper floors have slightly recessed sash windows beneath flat rubbed brick gauged arches, with rubbed jamb dressings. The second and third floor sashes have glazing bars in moulded exposed box frames and moulded sills. There are moulded brick string courses and an early 19th-century stucco frieze, along with a moulded cornice and parapet with coping. The roof is a double pitch valley roof that runs at right angles to the facade.

Inside, the building retains an original pilastered archway from the hall to the staircase, featuring a panelled soffit and a keyed archivolt with a patterned fanlight in the lunette and a panelled door. The staircase has a dog leg cut and carved string, with pairs of turned and twisted balusters per tread, as some were removed for reuse in the mid-20th century when the upper flights were rebuilt. The first-floor front room includes cupboard niches with mask-keyed archivolt arches and panelled soffits flanking the chimney breast.