39 Walden Street

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Historic England list description for 39-49 Walden Street
Contributed by Amy Spencer, Survey of London on Aug. 26, 2016

Excerpt from Historic England list entry for 39-49 Walden Street (listed at Grade II):

1. WALDEN STREET E1 4431 (North Side) Nos 39 to 49 (odd) TQ 3481 15/506 II GV 2. Early C19 terrace. Stock brick with coped parapet and mansard slate roof. 2 storeys, dormers and basements, 2 windows sashes with flat gauged arches, about half with glazing bars. Round headed doorways with fanlights and 6 panelled doors. Associated with Philpot Street terraces. (Nos 31 to 37 not listed though part of same terrace, 2 rebuilt end half demolished and a different roof line.)

Nos 39 to 49 (odd) form a group.¹

33–51 Walden Street
Contributed by Survey of London on Feb. 17, 2020

On the north side of Walden Street, Nos 33–51 are isolated by the nurses’ residential quarter of 1969–76. Thomas and John Goodman were granted a lease for Nos 37–49 in 1829, and agreed to build seven houses. In the following year John Clarke took Nos 33 and 35 on similar terms. The two-storey houses with raised basements are typical of the type built on the cross streets of the hospital’s estate. They were converted into nurses’ accommodation around 1990. Similar houses at Nos 25–31 were destroyed by bombing in the Second World War. No. 51 probably originated as a workshop or stables in existence by 1855 in the garden of 43 Philpot Street.¹