35, CRAVEN STREET WC2

35, CRAVEN STREET WC2

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1356964
Date first listed:
09-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:
35, CRAVEN STREET WC2
Statutory Address:
35, CRAVEN STREET WC2
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1356964
Date first listed:
09-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:
35, CRAVEN STREET WC2
Statutory Address 1:
35, 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:
35, 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 30234 80408

Details

TQ 3080 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER CRAVEN STREET, WC2 83/26 9.1.70 No. 35

G.V. II

Corner terraced town house. 1731 with c.1792 alterations. Brown brick with red brick dressings, channelled stucco ground floor, concealed slate roof. 4 storeys (top floor a c.1792 heightening) and basement. 3 windows wide and 4-window return to Craven Passage. Closet wing plan. Doorway to left, elliptical arched opening in plain stucco surround with recessed panelled door and patterned fanlight. Recessed glazing bar sashes under flat gauged red brick arches. Cornice band finishing off ground floor stuccowork; stone cornice over 2nd floor and parapet with coping to attic storey. Bowed cast iron balconettes to 1st floor. Cast iron area railings with spike finials. Interior retains most of original features with fielded panelling to passage hall and front rooms, Doric pilastered archway to stairwell which is similarly panelled with cut and carved string staircase, changing to closed string for top flights, with 3 turned balusters per tread, column newels and mahogany handrail, the 1st floor front room panelling is elaborated with egg and dart moulded architraves with shell ornament in ears and good modillion cornice, chimney breast flanked by fluted Ionic pilasters supporting entablature with carved pulvinated frieze and the ceiling panelled with 2 rectangles flanking circle, etc. Part of the Craven family's development of their Brewhouse estate, laid out by Flitcroft.

Survey of London; Vol. XVIII.

Listing NGR: TQ3023480408

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Legacy System number:
209384
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)

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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