Shooting the "221B Baker Street" exterior in North Gower Street Ownership was transferred from Nazarbayeva's ex-husband Rakhat Aliyev after his death in 2015. In 2020, The Times confirmed that in addition to various other properties between 215 and 237 Baker Street totalling around £140 million, the current property is jointly owned by the daughter of the former Kazakhstani president, Dariga Nazarbayeva and her son Nurali Aliyev. 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. Eventually the museum was granted special permission by the City of Westminster to bear the address of 221B Baker Street. 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. The main objection to the Museum's role in answering 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. She was invited to renumber the museum's building to coincide with its official opening (and because the number 221B had not been included in the original planning consent for the museum granted in October 1989).Ī 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 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. Watson's bedroom being on the floor above, overlooking a rear yard that had a plane tree in it. The main study overlooked Baker Street, and Holmes's bedroom was adjacent to this room at the rear of the house, with Dr. Īccording 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 description of the house can be found throughout the stories, including the 17 steps leading from the ground-floor hallway to the first-floor study. It displays exhibits in period rooms, wax figures and Holmes memorabilia, with the famous study overlooking Baker Street the highlight of the museum. 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. Since the closure of Abbey House in 2005, ownership of the address by the Holmes Museum has not been challenged, despite its location between 237 and 241 Baker Street. 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. For many years, Abbey National employed a full-time secretary to answer mail addressed to Sherlock Holmes. Baker Street was later extended, and in 1932 the Abbey National Building Society moved into premises at 219–229 Baker Street. At the time the Holmes stories were published, addresses in Baker Street did not go as high as 221. The residence was introduced in the novel A Study in Scarlet (1887). Baker Street in the late 19th century was a high-class residential district, and Holmes's apartment would probably have been part of a Georgian terrace.
In the United Kingdom, postal addresses with a number followed by a letter may indicate a separate address within a larger, often residential building. N.239 is the Sherlock Holmes Museum, with "221B" written above the door.Ģ21B Baker Street is the London address of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, created by author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
N.215–229 is the current building including N.221. N.85 was the last number of Baker Street in 1890 (until 1930). Baker Street in 1890 and the present day.
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