Appraisal

Nos. 28-32 (including Brewers Yard), Shelton Street

This is a five-storey, early-to-mid-20^th century, utilitarian, London Stock brick warehouse replacing an earlier brewery building, with sub-divided, painted steel, Crittal windows on the upper floors and modern shopfronts at ground floor level, painted inappropriately in white and light blue.

The building contributes modestly to the character, appearance and significance of the Covent Garden Conservation Area.

The current policy of individual lettering on the continuous painted rendered fascia above the shopfronts should be maintained. The gloss black paint should be removed from the London Stock brick pier and the black, bull-nose brick jamb at the left hand end of the ground floor and the white paint removed from the brick piers and the black bull-nose brick jambs to each side of the left hand shopfront. Both shopfronts should be painted in more appropriate colours.