Berners Street Mansions

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Coordinates: 51°31′06″N 0°08′14″W / 51.51833°N 0.13722°W / 51.51833; -0.13722

Berners Street Mansions (known as Berners Mansions) is a five storey Edwardian mansion block located in Berners Street in the City of Westminster.

The design of Berners Street Mansions is attributed to John Slater, Surveyor of the Berners Estate and it is an unlisted building of merit within the Charlotte Street West Conservation Area.[1]

It is a red brick building situated on the corner of Berners Street and Mortimer Street (formerly Charles Street), opposite the site of the former Middlesex Hospital (now called Fitzroy Place) and comprises 10 residential flats and 4 ground floor shops. Berners Street Mansions was built in 1900 replacing earlier 18th century shops and houses at nos. 34-36 Berners Street. Occupants of the earlier building included Thomas Filmer & Sons, furniture makers (34 Berners Street); Mr White's, baker (35 Berners Street); and Edward Speller, tea dealer and grocer (36 Berners Street).

36 Berners Street is clearly illustrated in Tallis's Street Views of London in 1838-40. The building is depicted from the Charles Street perspective and labelled as Grocer & Italian Warehouse, Post Office, and SPELLER.[2] A photograph in the English Heritage archives dated c. 1861 shows the same building from the Berners Street perspective with the shop sign of T Filmer clearly visible above no. 34.[3]

In January 1901 the Berners Estate placed a series of newspaper advertisements offering for sale at auction on Wednesday, January 23, 1901:

"a highly eligible investment in a substantial modern block of premises, known as the Berners-street Mansions, forming the corner of Berners-street and Mortimer-street opposite the Middlesex Hospital, of handsome elevation, the upper part arranged in convenient suites of residential flats, occupied by responsible tenants, and the ground-floor devoted to four capital light shops with basements, all well let (except one shop) at rising rents, and together of the present value of £1,490 per annum."[4]


References

  1. ↑ "Charlotte Street West Conservation Area Audit". Westminster City Council. 
  2. ↑ Tallis, John (1838-40). Tallis's Street Views of London. p. 167. 
  3. ↑ "Middlesex Hospital, Mortimer Street, Westminster, London". English Heritage. 
  4. ↑ "Sales By Auction.. The Times (London, England), Saturday, Jan 12, 1901; pg. 16". The Times. 1901. 

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