50, Charles Street W1

No. 50 Charles Street is a terraced town house built around 1751-52 by the master builder John Phillips in partnership with George Shakespear, located on a Berkeley Estate lease. The front of the house was altered in 1899 by Wimperis and Arber. The building has three storeys, a basement, and a dormered mansard roof. It is three windows wide and features a central entrance leading to a front compartment staircase-hall, which is somewhat rare for this type of house. The central doorway is topped with an elliptical arched fanlight. The windows are recessed sash windows without glazing bars, set within mid-19th century stucco architraves, and there is a stone oriel window on the first floor added in 1899. A stuccoed plat band runs along the first floor, and there is a parapet with coping. The property is enclosed by wrought iron area railings.

Inside, the interior has been significantly altered in the early to mid-19th century. The cut string front compartment staircase features an early 19th century Grecian pattern cast iron balustrade, which changes to a square section baluster above the first floor but retains some original turned balusters on the second floor landing. There are elements of panelling in the first floor reception rooms, which have otherwise been refurbished in the mid or late 19th century. Notably, there is a carved, eared architrave chimney piece with composition ornament in the rear room, which may have been reset.