39 and 39A West Street

This is an 18th-century building of considerable architectural merit, located at 39 and 39A West Street. The main section is three storeys high and constructed of fine red brick on a projecting rendered plinth. Horizontal bands of moulded brick run along the first and second floor levels, extending over the projecting surround of the central first-floor window in a segmental curve. The facade features a fluted frieze with rosette ornamentation, a moulded cornice with a key pattern bed mould, which breaks forward over the corners of the slightly projecting central bay and forms a pediment over it. A brick parapet is topped with stone coping, incorporating panelled details over the side windows and a raised section over the central bay with supporting side scrolls. There are five windows on the upper floors; the central window has a segmental head and projecting surround, with a pediment over the second-floor window. The ground floor has four windows and a central five-panel door. The door is topped with a radiating and curved fanlight of lead incorporating a ram's head ornament, set within an arched doorcase of rusticated jambs and a voussoir head with a central key block and fluted Doric pilasters. The doorcase includes an entablature with a triglyph frieze, a dentilled cornice, and an open dentilled pediment.

An extension to the right was added later and is constructed of brick with a slate roof. It features two window bays and one blind panel, along with a three-centred arched stable entry with vermiculated rusticated piers and a voussoir head on projecting springers with a key block. The garden front has been extended outwards by approximately 10 feet and rebuilt in the 19th century. A late 19th-century verandah, featuring slender fluted Doric columns and an entablature, extended across the ground floor; it was formerly accompanied by a wrought iron balustrade.

The interior contains an early 18th-century style staircase, illustrated in "Country Life" in July 1942, which is said to be a later addition. A smaller 18th-century staircase, characterized by delicately turned balusters and a ramped handrail, leads up from the first to the second floor. There may be a room with original panelling; however, window and door reveals seem to have been brought in from elsewhere, such as Chobham Hall.

The building is part of a group value context with Nos 18, 37, 43, 45, and the other listed buildings on the South-East side from Nos 19 to 46 (consec), and including the wrought-iron screen before Vernon House.