32, CRAVEN STREET WC2
32, CRAVEN STREET WC2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1066928
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 32, CRAVEN STREET WC2
- Statutory Address:
- 32, CRAVEN STREET WC2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1066928
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 32, CRAVEN STREET WC2
- Statutory Address 1:
- 32, CRAVEN STREET WC2
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 32, CRAVEN STREET WC2
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- City of Westminster (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 30255 80390
Details
TO 3080 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER CRAVEN STREET, WC2 83/28 9.1.70 No. 32
G.V. II
Terraced town house. c.1730-31 with alterations after fire damage in 1762 and features of c.1792. Brown brick (probably a late C.18 refacing), tiled roof. 3 storeys, dormered attic and basement (the only original house in the street not to be heightened). 3 windows wide. Channelled stucco ground floor has semicircular arched doorway to right with recessed panelled door in corner blocked architrave and plain fanlight. Recessed glazing bar sashes under flat gauged arches. Shallow cornice band finishing off ground floor stuccowork. Rendered frieze, stone cornice and rendered parapet with coping. Pedimented casement dormers. Cast iron area railings with spike finials. The interior 2 rooms deep with flanking front compartment staircase to 1st floor and back staircase immediately behind rising round square well to full height and top lit; main rooms with fielded panelling above dado and dentilled cornices; the front staircase would appear to have been modified c.1792, or after the fire damage, rising in narrow curved ended well with fluting to base of slender turned balusters which are nevertheless set on closed moulded string, abrupt termination to sweep at foot; the hall has modillion cornice finished with small cove; the back stairs have turned balusters on closed string and column newels; etc. Early L.C.C. tablet records the residence in 1827 of Heinrich Heine. Part of the Craven family's C.18 development of their Brewhouse estate, first laid out for them by Flitcroft.
Survey of London; Vol. XVIII.
Listing NGR: TQ3025580390
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 209382
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in The Strand The Parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields Part 2: Volume 18 , Vol. 18, (1937)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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