Address
37 Charles Street Mayfair London W1J 5ED
Telephone
Phone: 020 7529 1554
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Originally two buildings, numbers 37 and 38 and built in the 1750s, the first owner was the Marchionesses of Carnarvon 1757 – 1776. Edward Charles Baring bought both properties in 1870 and on his creation as Lord Revelstoke (1st Baron Revelstoke of Membland) in 1885, he converted the two houses into one to house his collection of Louis IV furniture and art.
By 1893 the crisis at Barings Bank had curtailed expenditure on No. 37 and all building and design work ceased. Many of Lord Revelstoke’s furnishings and objects d’art had to be sold at auction, although he continued to live here until his death in 1897. Lord Dartmouth (6th Earl of Dartmouth) was the next owner and the most significant changes to the interior of the house took place in 1900, with the creation of the Long and Small Drawing Rooms. No. 37 was the Dartmouth family home until the outbreak of war in 1914, when it was used by the British Red Cross as a military hospital.
