Description

OLD COMPTON STREET
TQ 2981 SE
58/105
No 6
II
GV
House, now restaurant with accommodation above. Late C17/early C18 with later
alterations. Rendered brick, tiled butterfly form roof, behind parapet. 3 1/2
storeys, 2 bays. Ground floor late C20 restaurant entrance front and
fascia. First and second floors, pair of casements beneath overlights in near
flush frames and with rendered Cills. Tall proportions of the windows may
reflect'the early window form. Plain rendered band at eaves height. Rear,
timber casement dormer. Interior: Above ground floor retains original plan
form with closet wing to rear. Staircase with moulded closed string, moulded
rail, columnar newels with square bases and knobs, the finials missing.
Balusters boarded in or removed, but visible features compare with staircases at
Nos 2 and 4 Old Compton Street and 101 Charing Cross Road. Deeply moulded box
cornicing, plain panelling to stairwell. Further panelling assumed to survive
beneath later cladding. Rare survival of early house representing earliest
phase of Soho's development (q.v.) Nos 2, 4 and 5 Old Compton Street and 101
Charing Cross Road.

Listing NGR: TQ2986681093

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27082199

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