No. 39, Monmouth Street
An original, three-storey, early-18th-century grade II listed house, re-faced and a shopfront installed in the early-19th-century. Two subdivided sash windows at first and second levels set within segmental arched openings, with modern, non-traditionally detailed cills. The original robustly detailed console brackets survive at each end of the shopfront. However, despite the broadly traditional character of the shopfront inserted c. 1983, the fascia appears to be unduly deep, lacks a cornice and appears to have been brought forward from its original alignment. In addition, there is an unsightly plain-rendered area below the cills of the windows at first floor level extending down to the top of the fascia. Whilst the shopfront is painted in an appropriately dark maroon colour, the fascia carries applied lettering, externally illuminated with three, oversized and unsightly floodlights.
A property of both special architectural and historic interest and townscape value, contributing positively to the character, appearance and significance of the Seven Dials Conservation Area.
There is a demonstrable need for the very unsatisfactory arrangement of the fascia and the plain rendered area directly above to be altered to provide for an authentic traditional solution, together with the removal of the three floodlights.
39 Monmouth Street
35-39 Monmouth Street (1956). Courtesy London Metropolitan Archives.
35-39 Monmouth Street (1974). Courtesy London Metropolitan Archives.
39-41 Monmouth Street (1974). Courtesy London Metropolitan Archives.
37-39 Monmouth Street (1974). Courtesy London Metropolitan Archives.
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