Description

OLD COMPTON STREET
TQ 2980 NE
1900/71/10007 No 68
II
Town house, now shop and flat. c. 1729-40, refaced early in C19.
4 storeys over basement, 2 windows wide, C19 4-pane sashes to
front elevation; 12 pane C18 sashes under cambered brick arches
to rear elevation. Large rear stack shared with No 66. No closet
wing or rear extension. Second floor has a solid wall to the
front, and a mansard to the rear; probably originally a mansard,
with the front altered early in the C19 (by 1840).
Interior: Two rooms deep, rear rooms with corner fireplaces.
Rooms on first and second floors and staircase compartment full
panelled, with plain, recessed panelling; cupboards to sides of
fireplaces in front rooms on first and second floors; early C19
fire surrounds in the first floor rooms; early C18 closed string
stair, with turned balusters, moulded handrail, and columnar
newel posts. A rare survival of the smaller West End house type
of the early C18, probably built as part of widespread rebuilding
of the Portland Estate in Soho, c. 1725-34.
Sources. Survey of London, XXXIII 193-6. Tallis, London Street
Views' (1838-40).

Listing NGR: TQ2966380962

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27082978

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