Description

1.
5401 MALTRAVERS STREET
(South Side)

26.3.49. No 55 (Harley House)
No 57
- Railings to Nos 55 and 57
TQ 0107 1/35

II GV

2.
Late C18. Terraced houses. Red brick. Ripped slate roof. Late Cl9 red brick
chimneys with brick tumbling and much cornicing.
3 storeys and basement with area. Brick eaves, cornice with cyma recta modillions.
6 ranges of double-hung sash windows with glazing bars (no glazing bars on ground
floor of No 55). Both houses have a 2 storey extension to east and west respectively,
of grey headers with red brick dressings, modillion eaves cornice and pitched
slate roofs. No 55 has 1 double hung sash window with glazing bars on the 1st
floor, and 1 doorway up 4 ashlar steps arched over the area, and framed by unfluted
Roman Doric 3/4 columns carrying a dentilled pediment. Door with 6 fielded panels
and semi-circular fanlight in panelled reveals. No 57's has 1 range of double-hung
sash windows with glazing bars, that on ground floor flush framed. Door of No
57 in main block, instead of west ground floor window: up 6 limestone steps, with
porch on Tuscan columns and pilasters supporting a pediment and a frieze with
paterae and fluting. Panelled soffit of pediment, and panelled reveals to door
with semi-circular fanlight. Area has 1 basement door, 1 modern basement window
and 1 double-hung sash basement window with glazing bars to No 55, and No 57 is
filled in except for 1 casement basement window with glazing bars.
Iron railings in front of area: No 55's late C19 with bulbous finials: No 57's
late C18 with urn finials.

Nos 45 to 63 (odd), 67 to 73 (odd) and 77 to 83 (odd) form a group with
Nos 46 to 62 (even) and with pavements and railings.

Listing NGR: TQ0155907008

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26540380

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Recommended Books

• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)