Description

TQ 3180 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER ESSEX STREET, WC2
4/5
24.2.58 No 34
G.V. II
Terrace house. c1675-82. Barbon development, the upper floors probably an C18
refacing. Amber stock brick with stuccoed ground floor, slate roof. 3 storeys,
basement and dormered mansard. Entrance to left with panelled door and fanlight
in semicircular arched opening. Recessed sash windows under flat, gauged, red
brick dressings to jambs. Stucco plat band over ground floor and parapet with
coping. Wrought iron area railings. Rear elevation has closet wing with fine
red brick dressings, cornice and parapet. Interior retains passage-hall with
pilastered archway to staircase compartment, notably elegant, open well, cut
string stairs with slender turned balusters grouped 3 per tread,swept and
ramped handrail and carved bracket tread-ends, otherwise only fragments of
panelling and cornices etc.

Listing NGR: TQ3108280963

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26319721

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House