Description

NORTHAMPTON STREET
(East side)

No.33 and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
NORTHAMPTON STREET
(East side) Nos.32 AND 33
Area railings to Nos 32 and 33)
05/08/75

GV II

House. c1799 with C20 alterations. Leased 25th March 1799, and built probably to designs of John Pinch the Elder.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar to front, rubble to basement, lime washed brick and ashlar to rear, double pile parapeted mansard roof, artificial slate to front, double Romans with Welsh Slate to lower slope to rear, lead covered party wall to right with two stacks, ashlar and render to front, brick and render to rear, with early clay pots. Staircase to rear.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys, attic and basement, three-window front. First floor has three C20 six/six-sashes in splayed reveals. Second floor has three similar windows with wrought iron guards. Ground floor has two similar windows to right with stone sills, to left six-panel door with reeded and fielded panels with fanlight in round headed plain reveal with chamfered jambs with incised numeral `33' over door, pennant paved crossover flush with pavement. Basement has two C20 six/six-sashes in plain reveals with splayed lintels and stone sills, half-glazed door with four-pane overlight infilling beneath crossover, timber area steps largely missing. Double dormer with six/six-sashes with part of moulded architrave. Band course over ground floor, weathered sill bands to first floor and second floor, frieze, dentil eaves cornice and coped parapet. Rear elevation has C20 six/six-sashes, cantilevered ashlar bathroom to second half-landing, standing on cast iron columns (added c1890, by FW Gardiner: drawing in house).
INTERIOR: Retains delicate plaster cornices and much original joinery. Dark brown flecked marble alcoves with cupboards at dado height either side of ground floor fireplace. Tall narrow triangular cupboard in corner of landing walls.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Attached wrought iron railings and gate with shaped tops on limestone bases.
HISTORY: Northampton Street was built on the pleasure grounds of No.14 Royal Crescent, the property of Charles Hamilton. Purchased by the Pulteney Estate in 1791, surveyed by Thomas Baldwin, but plans by Thomas Chantry in 1795 and John Pinch the Elder in 1799 (his first major work) superseded his. By 1800 there were 17 houses in Northampton Street, and this will have been one of them.
SOURCES: Country Life: 6 November 1980: Francis Kelly: Apology for an Eyesore: 1687-1692.

Listing NGR: ST7460765582

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26689074

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