39, Charles Street W1

No. 39 Charles Street is a substantial terraced town house built around 1750-1753 by 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 stands three storeys high, with a basement and a dormered mansard, and has five windows across its front.

The entrance is marked by an Ionic columned doorcase with a full entablature to the right, which frames a panelled door and a patterned fanlight. The windows are recessed glazing bar sashes set under flat gauged arches within stuccoed reveals. A painted stone plat band is present on the first floor, and there is a moulded stone cornice below the parapet with coping. The front steps are flanked by wrought iron area railings with scrollwork standards, and the house retains its original lead rainwater head and downpipe.

The rear elevation is plain, featuring a three-window bow to the right and a two-storey wing that connects to the coach house and stables in the mews. The interior of the house is virtually unaltered, aside from some partitioning. It includes a front compartment staircase leading to the first floor, which has stone treads, a wrought iron balustrade, and a ramped handrail. The compartment ceiling is adorned with an enriched cornice and a fanned medallion-rose. The first-floor rear contains a "Chinese Room" with hand-painted wallpaper, as well as good plasterwork ceilings, enriched cornices, carved wood and statuary marble chimney pieces, overmantel mirrors, pier glasses, and an original water-closet.