No. 40, Monmouth Street

Monmouth Street / Nos. 30-52 (even): No. 40, Monmouth Street
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38
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Designations

Listing
No
Building of Merit
Yes
Shopfront of Merit
No

Appraisal

No. 40, Monmouth Street, The Two Brewers P.H.

A public house of this name has occupied the site since the 1740s. It was rebuilt, together with the rest of the terrace, in the 1790s and substantially, or possibly totally, rebuilt in 1933. The rear elevation to Tower Court appears to have been entirely rebuilt. A distinctive, three-storey elevation faced in richly modelled, cream faience with limited areas of red brick and painted steel-framed windows rising above a ground floor storey faced in cream faience above polished black granite dado and base. Regrettably, the original faience fascia and raised lettering at the top of the street frontage has been obscured by an unfortunate Victorian Revival, glass-fronted gilded fascia sign and a face-fixed, full-width, retractable projecting blind. There is an externally-illuminated, projecting hanging sign, together with two projecting lanterns and two hanging flower baskets.

An unlisted building of particular townscape value contributing to the character, appearance and significance of the Seven Dials Conservation Area.

The frontage would benefit from the removal of the Victorian Revival, glass-fronted gilded fascia sign and a face-fixed, full-width, retractable projecting blind.

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Photographs

  1. Two Brewers, 40 Monmouth Street
  2. Two Brewers, 40 Monmouth Street (1974). Courtesy London Metropolitan Archives.

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