41, Charles Street W1

TQ 2880 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER CHARLES STREET W1 80/41 (South side) No 41 24.2.58 GV II*

Substantial terraced town house. c.1750-53, by the master builder John Phillips in partnership with George Shakespear, on a Berkeley Estate lease. Brown brick, slate roof. 3 storeys, basement and dormered mansard. 5 windows wide. Entrance in 2nd bay from left, in architrave doorcase with carved consoles and moulded cornice, 6-panel door with radial glazed rectangular fanlight. Recessed glazing bar sashes under flat gauged arches. Moulded stone cornice below parapet with coping. 1st floor windows have late C18 wrought iron balconettes. Wrought iron area railings with twin scrolled lampholders. Interior virtually unaltered with front compartment staircase up to 1st floor only, with carved brackets and cut string, 3 columnar balusters per tread and ramped handrail, returned to landing-gallery and bowed out to left hand rear room doorway; upper walls of compartment have Rococo plasterwork framing panels and good Rococo plasterwork ceiling; modillion cornice and enriched Rococo chimney piece to ground floor front room, good Rococo plasterwork to 1st floor reception rooms, carved chimney pieces, doorcases, shutters, etc.

Listing NGR: TQ2874180422