32, Craven Street Wc2

TO 3080 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER CRAVEN STREET, WC2 83/28 9.1.70 No. 32

G.V. II

Terraced town house. c.1730-31 with alterations after fire damage in 1762 and features of c.1792. Brown brick (probably a late C.18 refacing), tiled roof. 3 storeys, dormered attic and basement (the only original house in the street not to be heightened). 3 windows wide. Channelled stucco ground floor has semicircular arched doorway to right with recessed panelled door in corner blocked architrave and plain fanlight. Recessed glazing bar sashes under flat gauged arches. Shallow cornice band finishing off ground floor stuccowork. Rendered frieze, stone cornice and rendered parapet with coping. Pedimented casement dormers. Cast iron area railings with spike finials. The interior 2 rooms deep with flanking front compartment staircase to 1st floor and back staircase immediately behind rising round square well to full height and top lit; main rooms with fielded panelling above dado and dentilled cornices; the front staircase would appear to have been modified c.1792, or after the fire damage, rising in narrow curved ended well with fluting to base of slender turned balusters which are nevertheless set on closed moulded string, abrupt termination to sweep at foot; the hall has modillion cornice finished with small cove; the back stairs have turned balusters on closed string and column newels; etc. Early L.C.C. tablet records the residence in 1827 of Heinrich Heine. Part of the Craven family's C.18 development of their Brewhouse estate, first laid out for them by Flitcroft.

Survey of London; Vol. XVIII.

Listing NGR: TQ3025580390