14, North Audley Street

This building at 14 North Audley Street is an upholsterer's premises with living accommodation, now used as a restaurant and offices. It was constructed between 1887 and 1888 by Thomas Henry Watson and Frederic Hale Collins for the upholsterer Marlborough Conrath. The building is in a Flemish style and is built of red brick in English bond with stone dressings, topped by a green Westmorland slate roof and tall side chimneystacks.

The exterior has a narrow frontage of four storeys and an attic, above a basement, with an irregular arrangement of windows. A central curved gable is topped with an oculus. The third floor features a four-light mullioned and transomed window. The second floor has three double mullioned and transomed windows with ogee-shaped heads. Three octagonal pilasters extend from the ground to the second floor. A five-light stone oriel window, featuring mullioned and transomed windows and a copper, ogival (pointed arch) hood, is located on the right side of the first and second floors. The second-floor window has leaded lights with stained glass in the transomes. Oval oculi are present on each floor of the left side. The ground floor entrance has a doorcase with an arched head, an oval fanlight, and an oak-panelled door. The original shopfront features a four-centred brick and stone arch with a keystone and a wooden shopfront with three ogee arches, pilasters, and panelled risers.

The ground floor shop interior has oak panelling, an arched doorcase to the rear, and a panelled ceiling decorated with heraldic shields. The former living accommodation retains a staircase with an oak newel post, handrail, and painted turned balusters. Other features include a dado rail, a round-headed niche on the ground floor, and a dumb waiter extending to the second floor. The first floor has original window seats and a moulded cornice. The second floor features an alcove, moulded cornice, and original fireplaces. The third floor has a four-centred arched fireplace with an overmantel. The fourth floor includes bolection-moulded fireplaces, one with pilasters and a blank panel. The basement retains two fireplace surrounds.

The building was constructed on the site of an existing house. Marlborough Conrath, the leaseholder, was granted a new lease by the Grosvenor Estate, conditional on spending at least £1,500 on rebuilding, although he claimed to have spent £4,500.