35, Craven Street Wc2

TQ 3080 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER CRAVEN STREET, WC2 83/26 9.1.70 No. 35

G.V. II

Corner terraced town house. 1731 with c.1792 alterations. Brown brick with red brick dressings, channelled stucco ground floor, concealed slate roof. 4 storeys (top floor a c.1792 heightening) and basement. 3 windows wide and 4-window return to Craven Passage. Closet wing plan. Doorway to left, elliptical arched opening in plain stucco surround with recessed panelled door and patterned fanlight. Recessed glazing bar sashes under flat gauged red brick arches. Cornice band finishing off ground floor stuccowork; stone cornice over 2nd floor and parapet with coping to attic storey. Bowed cast iron balconettes to 1st floor. Cast iron area railings with spike finials. Interior retains most of original features with fielded panelling to passage hall and front rooms, Doric pilastered archway to stairwell which is similarly panelled with cut and carved string staircase, changing to closed string for top flights, with 3 turned balusters per tread, column newels and mahogany handrail, the 1st floor front room panelling is elaborated with egg and dart moulded architraves with shell ornament in ears and good modillion cornice, chimney breast flanked by fluted Ionic pilasters supporting entablature with carved pulvinated frieze and the ceiling panelled with 2 rectangles flanking circle, etc. Part of the Craven family's development of their Brewhouse estate, laid out by Flitcroft.

Survey of London; Vol. XVIII.

Listing NGR: TQ3023480408