59, Queen Charlotte Street

59 Queen Charlotte Street is an attached house, now used as offices, built in 1709 by John Price. It was refronted in 1736 for Jacob Elton, possibly by John Strahan. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar and features a double-depth plan in the Baroque style. It has three storeys and an attic, with a four-window range. The ground floor has rusticated pilasters, the second floor has panelled pilasters, and the third floor has fluted pilasters. There is a plinth, deep strings that break forward over the pilasters, and a cornice with sill blocks below the windows in the plain, coped attic storey. A later Tuscan porch is located to the left of centre, featuring columns supporting a pediment and a six-panel door. The windows are adorned with eared and shouldered architraves, with heads that have scribed voussoirs that become more curved as they ascend the facade. The first-floor windows have keys below the string, while the second-floor windows have keys up to aprons under the cornice, and fluted cill-block panels. The windows include 6/6-pane sashes, a narrow 4/4-pane sash to the left of the door, 20th-century casements in the attic, and 9/9-pane sashes at the rear with thick bars.

Inside, the building retains a fairly complete early 18th-century interior, featuring a panelled entrance hall with a fanlight leading to a rear stairwell that includes a good open-well stair with an uncut string, square newels with pendents, barleysugar balusters, and a moulded rail, along with wainscot. There are panelled partitions, fully-panelled ground and first-floor rooms, two-panel doors, bolection-moulded fireplaces, and cornices. The facade is noted as one of the most interesting Baroque terrace-house fronts in England.