72, South Audley Street W1

No. 72 South Audley Street is a terraced town house built in 1736 by Edward Shepherd. It was likely stuccoed around 1830 and had an extra storey added at that time. The house features stucco cladding and a slate roof, standing four storeys tall with a basement and a dormered mansard. It is two windows wide. The doorway, located to the right, is probably in its original rusticated surround and includes a panelled door with a patterned fanlight above. The ground floor has a canted bay window with thin fluted column dividers and a fanlight over the transom, which was inserted in 1887. The upper floors have sash windows set back in moulded architraves. A bracketed stone cornice is present over the second floor, with attic coping above. The house also features cast iron geometric patterned balconettes and wrought iron area railings topped with urn finials.

Inside, the original layout remains, with a top-lit staircase situated between the front and back rooms, along with some original doorcases, although much of the interior has Edwardian features. This house is part of Edward Shepherd's development of Nos. 71 to 75. It has historical significance as it served as the London residence of the Comte d'Artois, later known as Charles X, who was associated with the French Royal Family in exile during the Napoleonic Wars from 1805 to 1814.