Charles Street, Mayfair, W1J

Property Summary

This Grade II listed townhouse on Charles Street unfolds over seven floors and approximately 7,511 sq ft. A first-floor drawing room and three further reception rooms provide generous entertaining space; the principal bedroom suite has its own balcony over Charles Street and a well-proportioned dressing room, with five further bedroom suites on the second, third and fourth floors. A top-floor study opens onto a terrace with outside seating. The house has a lift, two terraces, wooden floors, marble fireplaces and a double garage, and retains its traditional period features throughout. The agent describes it as a wonderful opportunity for those seeking to update and modernise a home — Mayfair’s shops, restaurants, private members’ clubs and Hyde Park are all within walking distance.

Key Features

• Grade II listed townhouse on Charles Street, Mayfair
• Approximately 7,511 sq ft arranged over seven floors
• First-floor drawing room and three further reception rooms
• Principal suite with balcony and dressing room; five further bedroom suites
• Top-floor study opening onto a terrace
• Passenger lift
• Two terraces
• Double garage
• Marble fireplaces, wooden floors and period features throughout
• Air conditioning
• Freehold
• Walking distance to Berkeley Square, Mount Street and Hyde Park

Design Comment

Charles Street is the most straightforward brief in this collection: a complete, well-arranged Mayfair townhouse whose fabric is sound but whose interiors belong to an earlier decade. The plan already works — a vertical house with a lift, a proper first-floor drawing room and a bedroom floor per generation — so the task is a whole-house modernisation rather than a rebuild. That is a very different project in cost, programme and consent terms, and one that can move quickly.

The design opportunity is in the layering: replacing dated kitchens and bathrooms with joinery and stone that answer the building’s scale, rewiring and re-servicing the house so that lighting, climate and technology disappear into the fabric, and re-dressing the reception rooms so that the marble fireplaces, cornices and tall sash windows read as the point of the house again. The two terraces and the top-floor study deserve particular attention as the places a family will actually live.

Because the house is listed, even a modernisation of this kind benefits from a heritage-led approach — a considered schedule of works that distinguishes repair from alteration will keep the listed building consent process proportionate and the timeline predictable.

Development Consultations

To assist potential buyers of this property to understand their full design and development options, Janine Stone & Co. is able to provide complimentary design concept and development consultations. It can be arranged for these consultations to take place at the property or in our London studio. Janine Stone & Co. will provide guidance on architecture, refurbishment and planning considerations, in addition to helping interested parties to develop their early design ideas into floor plans with estimated project costs and timelines for realisation.

Should a successful acquisition take place, we would be happy to take these initial concepts through to a full concept and subsequent planning, design and build phases.