41, Craven Street
41, Craven Street, London, WC2N 5NG
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220948
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 41, Craven Street
- Statutory Address:
- 41, Craven Street, London, WC2N 5NG
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220948
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 41, Craven Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 41, Craven Street, London, WC2N 5NG
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:
- 41, Craven Street, London, WC2N 5NG
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:
- TQ3019680433
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 09/02/2018
TQ 3080 SW
83/19
CITY OF WESTMINSTER
CRAVEN STREET, WC2
No. 41
9.1.70
GV
II
Terraced town house. c.1730 with c.1792 alterations. Brown brick with red brick window dressings, channelled stucco ground floor, slate roof. Four storeys (top floor c.1792 heightening) and basement. Three windows wide. Closet wing plan. Elliptical arched doorway to right in plain stucco surround, recessed panelled door and fanlight, cornice on consoles added C19. Recessed sashes, glazing bars intact to first floor, under segmental red brick arches (the only house in Craven Street with segmental window arches). Cornice-band over ground floor stucco work as first floor sill band; parapet with coping. First floor windows have bowed delicate cast iron balconettes. Cast iron area railings with urn finials.
Interior largely intact with fielded and plain panelling and cornices; pilastered archway from hall to stairwell with dogleg turned baluster staircase of standard type (viz Nos, 11 and 12 qv) etc.
Part of the Craven family's C18 development of their Brewhouse estate, laid out by Flitcroft.
The building was occupied between1951 and 1964 by the India Club, a private members club set up as a non-political extension of the India League. The India League was a key organisation in the campaign for Indian Independence from Britain, spearheaded by Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon from 1929. Following the Indian Independence Act of 1947 the organisation refocused its activities to promote good relations between the two countries, and to support the Indian diaspora internationally. The India Club was opened on 12 January 1951 by India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru; Krishna Menon and Lady Mountbatten were Honorary Presidents. Goad insurance maps record that the India Club vacated 41 Craven Street in September 1964, at which point the club moved to the Hotel Strand Continental at 143-145 Strand.
41 Craven Street was adapted, with listed building consent, for use by the College of Optometrists in the 1990s.
Listing NGR: TQ3019680433
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 209390
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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