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     Re-numbering houses was quite a common occurence in London, as separate districts joined the larger body considered London. In the case of Chenies Street, the numbers had been assigned from Gower Street originally, in keeping with it belonging to the Bedford Estate. As you can see from old maps, originally there was not a through road to Tottenham Court Road  You can still see the after-effects of this piece-meal planning today; most of the streets adjoining  the east side of Tottenham Court Road in our neighbourhood are not aligned with comparable streets running west from Tottenham Court Road. In addition, the 18th century development, North Crescent, South Crescent and Alfred Place were not owned by the Bedford Estate, so there was a duplication of numbers. Also, some properties on Chenies Street had been unnumbered, and some were numbered using different systems (14A stood beside 14 ½, for instance).

     It's often confusing trying to research the history of a building using the Census, because house numbers change, so knowing a modern-day number is not enough to establish it is the property you are researching in the past (Even today, the postal workers confuse 11 Fitzroy House with 9-11 Chenies Street.) .The property which would have been numbered 15 (at the corner of  Huntley and Chenies Street) in the 1881 Census, was numbered 21 in the 1871 census, and re-numbered 15 in 1877. There is obviously another renumbering  or confusion which takes place before the 1888 poor rate is taken, because numbers 9-13 are recorded as being 'pulled down'  with the Ladies Residential Buildings appearing in their place the next year). Chenies Street Chambers still stands at the junction of Chenies Street and Huntley Street, is now numbered 9-11, circa 2000.

Chenies Street - House Numbers 1877
Note: dimensions are not to scale.
STREET NAMES ARE MARKED IN GREEN

number or name
AS OF 01.01.2001
present number
AS OF 12.06.1877

original number
17.05.1877
name of occupier
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direction

E

          S       +      N

                  W

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original number
17.05.1877

present number
AS OF 12.06.1877

number or name
AS OF 01.01.2001 

  TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD

Number 209
Tottenham Court Road

CHENIES  STREET
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CHENIES  STREET

Messrs Bruce Smith & Co. 15 1
2
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4
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6
14 ½
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14a
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13

Margaret Willis
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Messrs Hewetson  & Milner
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Messrs Hewetson & Milner

Antonio Caplatryi (?) 16 3
8
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10
12
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11

Frederick T. Walker
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Henry John Glibbery

Henry Lassalle 17a 5


ALFRED PLACE                                            

 1 NORTH CRESCENT
2 NORTH CRESCENT
3 NORTH CRESCENT
4 NORTH CRESCENT
5 NORTH CRESCENT
6 NORTH CRESCENT
7 NORTH CRESCENT
8 NORTH CRESCENT
9 NORTH CRESCENT
10 NORTH CRESCENT
11 NORTH CRESCENT
12 NORTH CRESCENT
13 NORTH CRESCENT
17 NORTH CRESCENT

12 12 Messrs Hewetson & Milner John Summerfield 17 7

X

James Robins 18 9
14
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16
10
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9
Messrs Hewetson & Milner
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Messrs Parker & Evens
Thomas Barnes 19 11 Chenies St. Chambers


18
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20
8
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7
Edwin Delaperrelle
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Henry Retterhoff
John Sweeney 20 & 20a 13 Chenies St. chambers
22 6 Joseph Norris (all Sweeney's property, ignore  gride line separation)
24 5 Thomas Tozer Mrs. Esther Emily Baker 21 15 Chenies St Chambers


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.                                  .Kendrick P ... X.


William Thompson


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X

HUNTLEY STREET

28 3

Stephan Stewart

CHENIES  STREET Herny Sunn (?) 22 17 Ridgmount Gardens
30 2

Stephan Stewart

John Sweeney 23 19 Ridgmount Gardens
32 1

Andrew Lecile

John Sweeney 24 21 Ridgmount Gardens
34 1a

George Want

Mrs. Mary Ann Elms 25 23 Ridgmount Gardens
40

CHENIES MEWS                                                     CHENIES MEWS                                                                            CHENIES MEWS                      

36 26 Charles Cook CHENIES  STREET
(continues to Gower Street)

source: Holborn Library Local History Archives Centre
The Board of Works
18 May 1877 / June 12 1877

a census list of occupants
in Chenies Street Chambers:
[1891, 1901]

archival prints and photographs of the building

air raid report on the bombing of the building
April 17th, 1941

historic walk

archival maps of the area:
London through the ages

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