36, 38 AND 40, EARLHAM STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1342095
Date first listed:: 15-Jan-1973
List Entry Name:: 36, 38 AND 40, EARLHAM STREET
Statutory Address:: 36, 38 AND 40, EARLHAM STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1342095
Date first listed:: 15-Jan-1973
List Entry Name:: 36, 38 AND 40, EARLHAM STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 36, 38 AND 40, EARLHAM STREET

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:: 36, 38 AND 40, EARLHAM STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Camden (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 30116 81086

Details

798-1/105/354 EARLHAM STREET 15-JAN-1973 (South side) 36, 38 & 40

II

36, 38 and 40 Earlham Street form an early C19 terrace with later shop premises to the ground floor of 36 and 38. The terrace is of four-storeys, plus basement level, and three-bays, in red/brown stock brick with the ground floor façade and a rebuilt parapet in yellow stock brick. A further floor appears to have been added in the late C20, set back from the main facade of the building. It is likely that the terrace was built as three dwellings, although the ground floor level has been subsequently altered. A vehicular entrance has been knocked through the depth of 40, whilst 36 and 38 have been remodelled in the C19, possibly more than once, to accommodate shop premises, and subsequently refurbished in the 1990s. Each shop frontage consists of a central eight-over-eight pane hornless sash window with shutters, flanked by brick panels and vertical batons which contain the shutters when opened. Beneath each window are three wooden panels, the central one angled inwards. To the left of each frontage is a brick panel, and to the right, a door with an overlight. A fascia board runs across the top of each frontage, with a console bracket at the far end of each shop, and one dividing them. The shop frontages, including the brick work, project slightly from the main facade of the building. A photograph from 1959 shows the shop frontages in place, but with earlier shutters with circular apertures. These shutters are still in place in a photograph of 1990 taken during the refurbishment works. The ground floor windows appear to be reproduction, but it is unclear whether all of the joinery to the shop frontages was replaced in the 1990s, or merely repainted. The windows on the upper floors are eight-over-eight pane horned sashes with cambered arches, the first floor windows have modern balconettes. The same 1959 photograph, and further examples from 1974, shows these upper windows as un-horned, so it seems that they have also been replaced.

INTERIOR: The ground floor interiors of 36 and 38 have been stripped out, and the brick work of the interior of 38 has been exposed. The side walls are predominantly red stock brick, whilst the front wall is a mixture of yellow and red stocks, with two stone blocks in the north-east corner. The upper floors were not inspected.

SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: 36, 38 and 40 Earlham Street are of interest as a surviving example of an early C19 terrace situated within the Seven Dials Conservation Area.

Listing NGR: TQ3011781084

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Legacy System number:: 477154
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.