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English: Houses in Broadwick Street, Soho These handsome terraced houses date from 1722-3 and their first occupiers were mainly professionals: a musician, a doctor, landscape gardener. They retain remakable degree of uniformity on the north side of Broadwick (formerly Broad) Street.

"Nos. 48–58 Broadwick Street make up a uniform row of houses each containing a basement and four storeys. Possibly the fourth storey is a later addition, since the back walls are still carried up for only three storeys, but it is difficult to find any change in the brickwork. The fronts of Nos. 48 and 50, moreover, have been entirely resurfaced, while the fourth storey and part of the third storey of Nos. 52, 54 and 56 have been rebuilt following bomb damage in the war of 1939–45. The fronts are three windows wide and built of dull-pink stock brick interspersed with occasional yellow bricks, each of the three lower storeys being finished with a raised bandcourse of red brick. The windows have segmental gauged arches of red brick and contain recessed box-frames, although the double-hung sashes are later in date. No. 58 varies from the general pattern in having no bandcourses above the second and third storeys even though it has them, in ordinary pink brick, on the side wall to Dufour's Place. Above the third storey, however, is a moulded cornice, returned at each end, which may be of painted stone but is more probably a later addition of stucco. The ground storeys of all the houses have been stuccoed in the nineteenth century, and drastically altered at Nos. 48 and 50, but in every case the original carved wooden doorcases have been preserved. The moulded architraves have number-plaques in place of keyblocks and at either side are narrow panelled pilasters surmounted by ornate consoles supporting moulded cornices. Most of the doors have been replaced, but the original six-panelled ones with ovolo-moulded frames remain at Nos. 48 and 50. The doorcases can probably be attributed to John Meard, carpenter, who was the original lessee of No. 56, for there are exact duplicates of them at Nos. 1–7 Meard Street, Soho. All the basement areas remain open, but the railings have been replaced, mostly in the nineteenth century."

From: 'The burial ground and workhouse', Survey of London: volumes 31 and 32: St James Westminster, Part 2 (1963), pp. 209-218. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41472