48, Charles Street W1

No 48 Charles Street is a terraced town house built around 1750-1753, likely by the master builder John Phillips in partnership with George Shakespear, situated on a Berkeley Estate lease. The house features darkened brick and a slate roof, rising four storeys, including an attic storey and a dormered mansard, with a basement below. It has three windows across the front. The doorway, located to the right, is of late 18th century style, featuring a five-panel door with sidelights beneath an elliptical arched patterned fanlight. The windows have recessed sashes without glazing bars, set under flat gauged arches. There is a plat band and a sill band at the first floor level, a bracketed main cornice above the second floor, and a parapet with coping. The entrance is flanked by wrought iron area railings and stone obelisk piers. The interior has been altered but retains top-lit stone staircases in the middle, featuring a square section bombé cast iron balustrade, along with some intact cornices.