No. 11 Soho Square
The first known occupant of this house was
Lady Carew, possibly the widow of Sir Henry
Carew, second baronet; she lived here from at least
1691 to 1707. (ref. 33) The house was renovated and
improved in 1735–6 by William Winchester of
St. Anne's, glazier, to whom a new lease of the
existing building (and of three small houses behind it, on the west side of Soho, then Charles,
Street) was granted by the Duchess of Portland
in May 1734. Winchester may have rebuilt the
smaller houses but probably made only superficial changes to the house in Soho Square, which
remained comparatively little altered until the
early years of the twentieth century. (ref. 90)
Other inhabitants include Owen Salusbury
Brereton, M.P. and Vice-President of the
Society of Arts, who later lived at No. 9, 1756–
1766; J. Schwieso, harp manufacturer (later at
No. 14), 1820–1, and Messrs. Williams and
Gosjean, also harp manufacturers, 1822–50. (ref. 33)
The present building is of six storeys with
undistinguished elevations of Portland stone.
References
| 33. |
R.B. |
| 90. |
M.L.R. 1734/4/330; R.B. |