36, CRAVEN STREET WC2

36, CRAVEN STREET WC2

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1066930
Date first listed:
09-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:
36, CRAVEN STREET WC2
Statutory Address:
36, CRAVEN STREET WC2
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1066930
Date first listed:
09-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:
36, CRAVEN STREET WC2
Statutory Address 1:
36, 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
36, 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 30228 80412

Details

TQ 3080 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER CRAVEN STREET, WC2 83/24 9.1.70 No. 36

G.V. I

Terraced town house. 1730 with alterations of c.1792. Brown brick with red brick dressings, channelled stucco ground floor, slate roof. 4 storeys (the top floor a c.1792 heightening) and basement. 3 windows wide. Closet wing plan. Doorway to left, elliptical arched opening in plain stucco surround, recessed panelled door and plain fanlight. Recessed glazing bar sashes under flat gauged red brick arches. Cornice-band finishing off ground floor stuccowork; parapet with coping. 1st floor geometric patterned cast iron balcony. Cast iron area railings with urn finials. Interior retains most of its original features with fielded panelling and cornices, pilastered archway from passage-hall to stairwell which is also panelled with dog leg cut and carved string staircase, changing to closed string for top flights, 3 turned balusters per tread, columnar newels; carved wood chimneypieces with pilastered jambs, etc. L.C.C. plaque commemorates the residence of Benjamin Franklin as Agent to the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, 1757-72 and from 1770 to 1774 of William Hewson surgeon, physiologist and friend of Franklin. Part of the Craven family's C,18 development of their Brewhouse estate, laid out by Flitcroft. Graded I for historical associations.

Survey of London; Vol. XVIII.

Listing NGR: TQ3022880412

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Legacy System number:
209385
Legacy System:
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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)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of 36, CRAVEN STREET WC2

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