34, Baker Street W1

This building at 34 Baker Street is a commercial property, originally built around 1790 as one of a group of terraced houses. It was developed by timber merchant William Kendall and a carpenter, Christopher Wharton, and appears to have been constructed concurrently with numbers 36 Baker Street and 67 Blandford Street, sharing the same roofline. The building is constructed of stock brick with rubbed red brick headers, a stone parapet, and a slate roof, featuring a brick chimneystack on the left side.

The facade has four storeys and three windows. The third floor has square window openings with 20th-century casements. The second floor has late 19th-century sash windows without glazing bars. The first floor has tall openings adapted to accommodate pivoting top lights. A 20th-century shopfront occupies the ground floor, with a projecting gabled weather hood on the right-hand side.

The rear elevation retains at least two original tripartite sash windows, along with a tall, round-headed staircase window. The ground floor retains the original moulded cornice, featuring a design of interlocking circles, above a suspended ceiling. An original open-well staircase has two stick balusters per tread and a mahogany handrail. The upper part of the staircase is situated within an apse, featuring a rich modillion cornice and lit by a tall sash window with panelled shutters in the rear wall. The first floor retains a reeded fireplace with paterae and anthemion frieze and cornice. The second floor’s rear room features an original fireplace with anthemion decoration, and the third floor has a bolection-moulded fireplace and original panelled partition.