39, Charles Street W1

TQ 2880 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER CHARLES STREET W1 80/39 (South side)

No 39 24.2.58 GV II*

Terraced substantial town house. c.1750-53 by the master builder John Phillips in partnership with George Shakespear, on a Berkeley Estate lease. Brown brick, slate roof. 3 storeys, basement and dormered mansard. 5 windows wide. Ionic columned doorcase, with full entablature, to right framing panelled door and patterned fanlight. Recessed glazing bar sashes under flat gauged arches, in stuccoed reveals. 1st floor painted stone plat band. Moulded stone cornice below parapet with coping. Wrought iron area railings with scrollwork standards flanking front steps. Original lead rainwater head and downpipe. Plain rear elevation with a 3-window bow to right and a 2 storey wing linking coach house/stables in mews. Interior virtually unaltered, apart from some partitioning, including front compartment staircase to 1st floor with stone treads, wrought iron balustrade and ramped handrail, the compartment ceiling with enriched cornice and fanned medallion-rose; "Chinese Room" to 1st floor rear with hand painted wall paper; good plasterwork ceilings and enriched cornices, carved wood and statuary marble chimney pieces, overmantel mirrors and pier glasses, original 1st floor rear water-closet, etc.

Listing NGR: TQ2872280409