13 AND 14, CRAVEN STREET WC2

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1066962
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:: 13 AND 14, CRAVEN STREET WC2
Statutory Address:: 13 AND 14, CRAVEN STREET WC2

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1066962
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:: 13 AND 14, CRAVEN STREET WC2
Statutory Address 1:: 13 AND 14, CRAVEN STREET WC2

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 13 AND 14, 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 30212 80394

Details

TO 3080 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER CRAVEN STREET, WC2 83/40 9.1.70 Nos. 13 and 14

G.V. II

Pair of terraced town houses. 1730-31 with c.1792-1800 alterations to front. Brown brick with red brick window dressings, concealed slate roofs. 4 storeys (top floor made a full storey c.1800 and mansard added to No. 13) and basement. Each 3 windows wide. Mirror plans as with Nos. 11 and 12 q.v., with closet wings. Ground floor channelled stucco with adjoining elliptical arched doorways in plain stucco surrounds, containing recessed panelled doors in corner blocked architraves and fanlights. Recessed plate glass sashes under flat gauged red brick arches, central top floor window blind. Shallow cornice moulding finishing off ground floor stuccowork. Parapet with coping. c.1800 wrought iron bowed balconettes to No. 13. Wrought iron area railings with urn finials. No. 13 retains panelled interior of same type as Nos. 11 and 12 q.v. but retaining original staircase balustrade only to upper flights. In No. 14 the panelling is only intact to the passage hall and stairwell, the staircase with cut and carved strings, grouped balusters etc. as in Nos, 11 and 12 q,v. Part of the Craven family's C.18 development of their Brewhouse estate, laid out for them by Flitcroft.

Survey of London; Vol. XVIII.

Listing NGR: TQ3021280394

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Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'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.