Berners Street Mansions

Berners Mansions was designed in 1897 by George Dennis Martin (1848-1915), Architect, of Pall Mall East.

Berners Mansions was built in 1897, by Frederick Britton of 469 Caledonian Road, Islington, following demolition of the earlier 18th century shops and houses at nos.

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.

[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.