40, Charles Street W1

No 40 Charles Street is a 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 is constructed of brown brick and features a slate roof. It has four storeys, including an attic, and is three windows wide. The entrance is on the left and includes an architrave doorcase with carved consoles supporting a moulded cornice, and a six-panel door with a radial glazed rectangular fanlight above. The windows are recessed glazing bar sashes set under flat gauged arches within stuccoed reveals. There is a plat band and sill band on the first floor, a main bracketed cornice over the second floor, and a secondary cornice below the parapet. The property is also adorned with wrought iron area railings and twin lampholders with link extinguishers. Inside, the interior remains largely unaltered, featuring a stone staircase with a wrought iron balustrade, impressive plasterwork ceilings, enriched cornices, chimneypieces, and decorative door furniture.