LXXVI—EUSTON GROVE
The four houses on the east side of Euston Grove are of four storeys,
the two middle ones slightly recessed from those at the end. The latter have
rounded external angles also slightly recessed from the face. The ground
floor is of stucco and grooved joints, and has semicircular arched doors and
rectangular sash windows. The upper floors were originally in brick but the
northern house has now been rendered throughout. The first-floor windows
are rectangular with wide architraves with the exception of Nos. 2 and 3,
which have three-light windows, the centre one arched and an outer arch
aligning with the side lights is carried over the whole with fluted ornament
between the two arches in the Adam manner. The second and third floors
have rectangular windows following the width of those below and the two
floors are separated by a plain pilaster band, which is moulded in the case of
No. 4 (Plate 68).
Inhabitants
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| No. 1. | 1844–1847, Rev. Francis Martin. |
| No. 2. | 1845–1853, John Cooper. Perhaps the actor who had a great vogue in London between
1820 and 1858. He appeared chiefly in Shakespearean parts at Drury Lane and Covent
Garden. 1858–1874, Robert Edmond Grant (1793–1874), comparative anatomist.
He was a friend of Charles Darwin and professor of zoology at University College to
which he left his collections and library. |