24 Effingham Street

A late-C18 terraced town-house, with C17 or earlier origins.

MATERIALS and PLAN: mixed-stock brick in Flemish bond and a slate-tiled roof. There are three storeys and a basement, with an internal chimney stack to left of centre. The house is set back behind the adjoining Number 26, and projects in front of the adjoining Number 22.

EXTERIOR: the road front, facing east, is three-bay, largely symmetrical, and Georgian in style. The brickwork to the ground-floor is painted white. The front entrance is to the north-side. It has a moulded door case with frieze, cornice and pilasters with fluted capitals. The timber door has six, raised and fielded panels, the middle two of which are glazed. It is recessed within the door case which has moulded panels to either side, and a round-headed fanlight above. The door case also has a fitted, brass bell-pull. There are two sash windows to the ground floor, and three on the first and second storeys. The windows are recessed and formed of four-over-three panes, under flat, red-brick gauged arches. The rear walls of the building incorporate the remains of a C17 (or earlier) building. They are constructed of flint and brick, and have an arched window opening.

INTERIOR: there are framed partitions, and the drawing room has arched recesses, which flank a C20 fireplace. The staircase has turned principal balusters, and a dado rail. The basement ceiling has a chamfered beam, which may have been reused, or survive from an earlier building phase.