PERIOD DETAILS LIST

GENERAL

• All rooms have original 1732 panelling and shutters throughout except for top floor + attics which were never panelled. Shutters all have brass shutter pulls, and iron locking bars & original butterfly hinges.
  
• Floors - most of the floors are original pegged boards;
  
• Door furniture - brass rim locks and drop handles on the principal floors;
  
• Doors - original LH hinges
  

BASEMENT

• Front Vault Left: Waste Management System - soakaway/servants cesspit + street washaway into soakaway + coal hole;
  
• Front Vault Right: coal cellar still with working coal hole;
  
• Front Room: 1732 kitchen with early 19c sink, range and original spice cupboard; cold room beneath kitchen; original yorkstone passageway;
  
• Middle: 18c fireplace; 19c flooring, window into cesspit vault;
  
• Rear Vault: 1732 cesspit and arched vault floodlit upwards.
  

GROUND FLOOR

• Front door - 18c knocker & early letter box, original hinges + lock.
  
• Front Room: unusual example of late 18c formal dining room with twin tromp l'oeuil doors; 1732 panelling; original boards and ceiling; Regency fireplace and marble surround; original bell pull mechanism; original shutters + bars;
  
• Middle room: 1732 marble firesurround + late 18c hearth; original servants bell pull;
  
• Closet: replica marble 1732 fire surround, late 18c hearth (current kitchen).
  

FIRST FLOOR

• Front Room: original double fielded panelling shutters and bars; 18c black & white marble fire surround; 19c double doors to middle room;
  
• Middle Room early 18c marble fire surround, late 18c hearth;
  
• Closet mid 19c small range (current library).
  

SECOND FLOOR

• Front Room: (subdivided) - 1732 marble fire surround. 19c hearth and 1732 wig cupboard;
  
• Middle Room: 1732 replica stone fire surround, late 18c hearth;
  
• Closet: 1732 fire surround (bathroom).
  

THIRD FLOOR & ATTICS

• Interconnected rooms: 1732 replica stone fire surrounds, late 18c hearths;
  
• Rear Attic: two 'hidden rooms', one plastered inter-connected via 4' door;
  
• Front Attic: original internal gutter still in use. Rafters visible in both rooms.
  

68 DEAN STREET

• Constructed 1681 as part of the Pitt Estate
  
• Re-build by John Meard Junior c. 1732
  
• Restoration Works 1994 - 1997
  
• Supported by English Heritage, Westminster City Council and ICI Dulux Paints
  

WORKS INFORMATION

• Client & Main Contractor David Bieda
  
• Architect John Dickinson AA Dip FRSA
  
• Structural Engineer Colin Utting C Eng. MI Struct E MIBC
  
• Honorary Advisers Dan Cruickshank, Francis Golding,Treve Rossiman, Rebecca Willer, Duncan Wilson
  
• EH Statutory Case Officer James Edgar
  
• EH Supervisory grants Architect Trudi Hughes, Mike Stock
  
• Westminster Conservation Officer Mike Lowndes, William Holborow

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