Description

TQ 3080 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER CRAVEN STREET, WC2 83/22 9.1.70 No. 40

G.V. II

Terraced town house. c.1731 with c.1792 alterations. Brown brick with red brick window dressings, channelled stucco ground floor, slate roof. 4 storeys (top floor c.1792 heightening), and basement. 4 windows wide. Square 3 room plan similar to No 39 qv but without front staircase. Semicircular arched doorway in 2nd bay from left in plain stucco surround, recessed panelled door and fanlight. Recessed plate glass sashes under flat gauged red brick arches. Cornice-band over ground floor and 1st floor sill band finishing off stuccowork; parapet with coping. Cast iron area railings with urn finials. Interior altered but retains plain panelling above 1st floor, and the rear 1st floor room has fielded panelling and carved wood pilasters to chimneypiece, etc. Cut and carved string staircase with 2 balusters per tread and clustered curtail. Part of the Craven family's C.18 development of their Brewhouse estate, laid out by Flitcroft.

Survey of London; Vol. XVIII.

Listing NGR: TQ3020580430

External Links

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