The other was the location of Madame Cornelys' entertainments in the eighteenth century and was demolished in 1791; part of the site was cleared in 1891 for the building of St. Patrick's church.
[1] The house's association with the Carlisles did not begin until 1717 or 1718, when the estranged wife of the third earl inherited it from her mother, the dowager Countess of Essex.
[1] Charles Dickens is thought to have used the house as his model for the lodgings of Dr. Manette and his daughter Lucie in A Tale of Two Cities.
[6] The house was destroyed in a World War II bombing raid on 10–11 May 1941, a full-moon night, killing the caretaker and his wife and the local air-raid warden, who had been having tea together.
[7] The site of the house was occupied by offices at numbers 10–12 Carlisle Street, built in 1959–60,[1] until their replacement by the Nadler Soho hotel.
[9] She used the house to host sensational balls and masquerades,[5][9][13][14][15] and beginning in 1771, also put on unlicensed operatic performances, for which she was fined.
They then announced an Academy of Sciences and Belles Lettres, with instruction for foreigners in 'the language, constitution and customs of England' and a Wednesday evening debate series called the School of Eloquence.
[9] Madame Cornelys' main assembly rooms in Sutton Street remained; her salon became a Catholic chapel.