45 and 46 Clarges Street are two Grade II listed townhouses built around 1730–1750, located in

Clarges Street Clarges Street is a street in the City of Westminster, London. The street runs from Clarges Mews in the north to Piccadilly in the south. It is crossed by Curzon Street. History Clarges Street was built in the early 18th century and is probabl ...

in the

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district of Mayfair.

Architecture

The

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listing describes them as "Brown brick with stuccoed ground floors. 4 storeys and basements. Each 3 windows wide. Doorways to left and right respectively … " Number 45 has "c. 1800 cast iron balcony to 1st floor and balconette to central 2nd floor window" and number 46 has "wrought iron balconette to 1st floor".

Residents

CHARLES JAMES FOX 1749-1806 Statesman Lived Here

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moved to number 45 in 1788. A plaque noting the residence of

Charles James Fox Charles James Fox (24 January 1749 – 13 September 1806), styled ''The Honourable'' from 1762, was a prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was the arch-riv ...

, a

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whig, is at number 46, which is currently occupied by the Fox Club, a gentlemen's club.

Stephen Dowell Stephen Dowell (1 May 1833 – 28 March 1898) was an English historian and legal writer, best known for his history of taxation in England. Biography Dowell was born on 1 May 1833, in Shorwell on the Isle of Wight, to Stephen Wilkinson Dowell ...

died at number 46 in 1898.

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