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Appraisal

No. 43, Earlham Street

No. 43, Earlham Street is part of the southern side of the group of substantially scaled, mid-19^th century, London Stock brick-faced, former brewery buildings, formally (grade II) listed as nos. 29-43 (odd), Earlham Street and nos. 8-26 (even) Short’s Gardens.

The whole group comprises a series of five, conjoined, three-storey buildings of similar scale and character extending for some nineteen bays along the street, screening the once open courtyard at the centre of the site, glazed-over and converted into a retail and restaurant centre - Thomas Neal’s/The Thomas Neal Centre in the early 1990s, now the Seven Dials Market. This part of No. 43 contains one of the main entrances which reinstated the former Coucumber Alley, linking Earlham Street and Short's Gardens (with some frontages to and entries from Short’s Gardens and Earlham Street).

After the closure and relocation of the brewery in 1905 much of this block became a box-factory for the once renowned caterers and food-manufacturers, J. Lyons & Co.. The street-elevations possess a distinctly robust, industrial character with extensive deep-set window and other openings, with segmental, brick-arched heads – many double-arched at ground floor level. Red brick bands are carried across some of the buildings. The lower parts of the jambs and cills of many of the openings at ground floor level are formed in grey granite. Many windows contain modern, subdivided casements, others, particular at ground floor level, retain, fixed, subdivided, cast-iron glazing in their upper parts above transoms spring from grey-granite cushions. On No. 43, A large hinged crane survives above the modern entrance canopy to Thomas Neal’s.

A listed complex of former industrial buildings of particular special architectural and historic interest and considerable townscape value contributing substantially to the character, appearance and significance of the Seven Dials Conservation Area.

Surviving external features of historic interest and significance should be retained.