17-593: Abbey House may refer to several houses in England: Abbey House, Baker Street, London, a possible location of 221B Baker Street , the fictional residence of Sherlock Holmes Abbey House, Barrow-in-Furness , a 1914 house by Edwin Lutyens Abbey House, Cambridge , a 17th-century house Abbey House, Cirencester , Gloucestershire, a former country house Abbey House, Ranton , Staffordshire,
34-543: A full-time secretary to answer mail addressed to Sherlock Holmes. In 1990, a blue plaque signifying 221B Baker Street was installed at the Sherlock Holmes Museum , situated elsewhere on the same block, and there followed a 15-year dispute between Abbey National and the Holmes Museum for the right to receive mail addressed to 221B Baker Street. Since the closure of Abbey House in 2005, ownership of
51-424: A month to Sherlock Holmes, including cards on 6 January, the date fans believe is his birthdate. It appointed a permanent "secretary to Sherlock Holmes" to answer them. A bronze plaque on the front of Abbey House carried a picture of Holmes and a quotation, but was removed from the building several years ago; its present whereabouts are unknown. In 1999, Abbey National sponsored a bronze statue of Sherlock Holmes at
68-538: A rear yard that had a plane tree in it. The street number 221B was assigned to the Sherlock Holmes Museum on 27 March 1990 (replacing the logical address 239 Baker Street) when the Leader of Westminster City Council, Shirley Porter , unveiled a blue plaque signifying the address of 221B Baker Street. She was invited to renumber the museum's building to coincide with its official opening (and because
85-588: A ruined 1820 house Abbey House, Malmesbury, Wiltshire, surrounded by Abbey House Gardens Abbey House Museum , Kirkstall, West Yorkshire Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Abbey House . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abbey_House&oldid=897681748 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
102-490: Is 23-B. When street numbers were reallocated in the 1930s, the block of odd numbers from 215 to 229 was assigned to an Art Deco building known as Abbey House, constructed in 1932 for the Abbey Road Building Society, which the society and its successor (which subsequently became Abbey National plc) occupied until 2002. Almost immediately, the building society started receiving as many as 30 letters
119-547: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages 221B Baker Street 221B Baker Street is the London address of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes , created by author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle . In the United Kingdom, postal addresses with a number followed by a letter may indicate a separate address within a larger, often residential building. Baker Street in
136-618: The "Sherlock Holmes" stories were first published, street numbers in Baker Street did not go as high as 221. The section north of Marylebone Road near Regent's Park – now including 221 Baker Street – was known in Doyle's lifetime as Upper Baker Street. In his first manuscript, Doyle put Holmes's house in Upper Baker Street. However, a British crime novelist named Nigel Morland claimed that, late in Doyle's life, he identified
153-424: The address by the Holmes Museum has not been challenged, despite its location between 237 and 241 Baker Street. Its postal code is NW1 6XE. We met next day as he had arranged, and inspected the rooms at No. 221B, Baker Street, of which he had spoken at our meeting. They consisted of a couple of comfortable bed-rooms and a single large airy sitting-room, cheerfully furnished, and illuminated by two broad windows. When
170-523: The current property is jointly owned by the daughter of the former Kazakhstani president, Dariga Nazarbayeva and her son Nurali Aliyev. Ownership was transferred from Nazarbayeva's ex-husband Rakhat Aliyev after his death in 2015. The fictional address has been portrayed in the following pastiches of Sherlock Holmes : 51°31′24″N 0°09′30″W / 51.52333°N 0.15833°W / 51.52333; -0.15833 George Street, Marylebone Too Many Requests If you report this error to
187-414: The entrance to Baker Street tube station . The Sherlock Holmes Museum is situated within an 1815 townhouse very similar to the 221B described in the stories and is located between 237 and 241 Baker Street. It displays exhibits in period rooms, wax figures and Holmes memorabilia, with the famous study overlooking Baker Street the highlight of the museum. The description of the house can be found throughout
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#1732779937222204-543: The junction of Baker Street and George Street , about 500 metres south of the Marylebone Road, as the location of 221B. Sherlockian experts have also held to alternative theories as to where the original 221B was located and have maintained that it was further down Baker Street. While at medical school in Edinburgh from 1876 to 1880, Doyle resided at 23 George Square near the university. The residence next door
221-679: The late 19th century was a high-class residential district, and Holmes's apartment would probably have been part of a Georgian terrace . The residence was introduced in the novel A Study in Scarlet (1887). At the time the Holmes stories were published, addresses in Baker Street did not go as high as 221. Baker Street was later extended, and in 1932 the Abbey National Building Society moved into premises at 219–229 Baker Street. For many years, Abbey National employed
238-459: The letters was that the number 221B bestowed on the museum by the council was out of sequence with the other numbers in the street: an issue that has since vexed local bureaucrats, who have striven for years to keep street numbers in sequence. In 2005, Abbey National vacated their headquarters in Baker Street, which left the museum to battle with Westminster City Council to end the dispute over the number, which had created negative publicity. Eventually
255-570: The museum was granted special permission by the City of Westminster to bear the address of 221B Baker Street. In 2018, Quartz revealed that, according to court documents and the Panama Papers , the property was owned at least partially by relatives of Nursultan Nazarbayev , then Kazakhstani president. In 2020, The Times confirmed that in addition to various other properties between 215 and 237 Baker Street totalling around £140 million,
272-461: The number 221B had not been included in the original planning consent for the museum granted in October 1989). A long-running dispute over the number arose between the Sherlock Holmes Museum, the building society Abbey National (which had previously answered the mail addressed to Sherlock Holmes) and subsequently the local Westminster City Council. The main objection to the museum's role in answering
289-425: The stories, including the 17 steps leading from the ground-floor hallway to the first-floor study. According to the published stories, "221B Baker Street" was a suite of rooms on the first floor of a lodging house above a flight of 17 steps. The main study overlooked Baker Street, and Holmes's bedroom was adjacent to this room at the rear of the house, with Dr. Watson 's bedroom being on the floor above, overlooking
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