41, Charles Street W1

No. 41 Charles Street is a substantial terraced town house built around 1750-1753 by the master builder John Phillips in partnership with George Shakespear, located on a Berkeley Estate lease. The house features brown brick construction and a slate roof, standing three storeys high with a basement and a dormered mansard. It is five windows wide, with the entrance positioned in the second bay from the left, framed by an architrave doorcase that includes carved consoles and a moulded cornice. The entrance has a six-panel door topped by a radial glazed rectangular fanlight. The windows are recessed glazing bar sashes set beneath flat gauged arches, and there is a moulded stone cornice below the parapet with coping. The first-floor windows are adorned with late 18th-century wrought iron balconettes, and the property is enclosed by wrought iron area railings featuring twin scrolled lampholders.

The interior of the house is virtually unaltered, showcasing a front compartment staircase leading to the first floor. This staircase has carved brackets, a cut string, three columnar balusters per tread, and a ramped handrail that returns to the landing-gallery and bows out towards the left-hand rear room doorway. The upper walls of the compartment are decorated with Rococo plasterwork framing panels, and the ceiling features impressive Rococo plasterwork. The ground floor front room includes a modillion cornice and an enriched Rococo chimney piece, while the first-floor reception rooms display fine Rococo plasterwork, carved chimney pieces, doorcases, and shutters.