11 and 12, Craven Street Wc2 London, England

Listed Building Data

11 and 12, Craven Street Wc2 has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID
1220845
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
II
Date Listed
9 January 1970
Name
11 AND 12, CRAVEN STREET WC2
Location
11 AND 12, CRAVEN STREET WC2
District
City of Westminster
County
Greater London Authority
Grid Reference
TQ 30203 80401
Easting
530203.2300
Northing
180400.9930

Listed Building Description

Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.

TO 3080 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER CRAVEN STREET, WC2 83/32 9.1.70 Nos. 11 and 12

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 repaired) and basement. Each 3 windows wide. Mirror plans with staircases against common party wall and rear closet wings. Channelled stucco facing to ground floor 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 cast iron balconies across 1st floor, that to No. 12 with geometrical pattern. Wrought iron area railings with urn finials. Identical panelled interiors in 2 orders with moulded dado, angled chimney breasts to rear rooms and closets; arched opening from passage-hall to stair compartment; dog leg staircases with cut and carved strings changing to closed moulded string for top flight, turned balusters (slight variant in pattern between Nos. 11 and 12) grouped 2 per tread in No. 11 and 3 per tread in No. 12, columnar newels; the main ground floor rooms of No. 11 were separated by Doric column screen now embedded in partition; etc. 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: TQ3020480398