32, Craven Street Wc2

No. 32 Craven Street is a terraced town house built around 1730-31, with alterations made after fire damage in 1762 and additional features added around 1792. The building is constructed of brown brick, likely refaced in the late 18th century, and has a tiled roof. It stands three storeys tall, with a dormered attic and a basement, and is the only original house on the street that has not been heightened. The façade is three windows wide, featuring a channelled stucco ground floor with a semicircular arched doorway to the right. This doorway has a recessed panelled door within a corner blocked architrave and a plain fanlight above. The windows are recessed glazing bar sashes set under flat gauged arches, and there is a shallow cornice band that finishes off the ground floor stuccowork. The upper sections include a rendered frieze, a stone cornice, and a rendered parapet with coping, along with pedimented casement dormers. The property is enclosed by cast iron area railings topped with spike finials.

Inside, the layout consists of two rooms deep, with a flanking front compartment staircase leading to the first floor and a back staircase immediately behind it. The main staircase rises in a round square well to full height and is top lit. The main rooms feature fielded panelling above the dado and dentilled cornices. The front staircase appears to have been modified around 1792 or after the fire damage, with a narrow curved ended well and fluting at the base of slender turned balusters, which are set on a closed moulded string and terminate abruptly at the foot. The hall has a modillion cornice finished with a small cove, while the back stairs have turned balusters on a closed string and column newels. An early London County Council tablet notes that Heinrich Heine resided here in 1827. This house is part of the 18th-century development of the Craven family's Brewhouse estate, which was initially laid out for them by the architect Flitcroft.