22, Albemarle Street

No. 22 Albemarle Street is a house that was later converted into a shop and workshops. It dates from the 18th century and was refronted in the mid-19th century. The building was partially acquired by Asprey's in 1861 and fully taken over in 1926. It features a stucco-rendered exterior with the ground floor designed to resemble ashlar stone. The structure has four storeys, including one treated as an attic, and a basement, with three bays.

On the ground floor, there is a three-light shop window, likely from the 1920s, with small paned lights beneath fanlights and a panelled dado under an earlier dentil cornice. The entrance, situated to the left, probably dates from the same period and consists of a pair of panelled doors set in panelled reveals. The first floor has tall windows beneath plain cornices and a cast iron balcony. The upper floors contain sash windows with glazing bars, framed by simple moulded architraves, and there is a deep cornice above leading to the attic storey, which also has sash windows with glazing bars.

Inside, the rooms have largely been opened up for shop use, but some cornices remain, especially on the first floor. The ground floor features a marble fire surround with a steel grate. An Ionic screen fronts an elliptical stairwell, which has likely been enhanced with 1920s panelling and includes an ornate panelled lift with decorative metal screens at each floor, said to have been installed in 1926. The first floor rear windows are flanked by tall Corinthian pilasters, and there is a modillion cornice at the rear and in the former centre room. Some six-panel doors are still intact. The property is also adorned with attached iron railings featuring gilded paterae and small urns on top.

Notably, this building served as lodgings for Florence Nightingale and William Farr in 1857 while they conducted pioneering research on statistics from the Crimean War.