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Baker Street is a street in the Marylebone district of the City of Westminster in London. It is named after builder William Baker, who laid out the street in the 18th century. The street is most famous for its connection to the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, who lived at a fictional 221B Baker Street address on the north of the street. The area was originally high class residential, but now is mainly occupied by commercial premises.
Baker Street is a busy thoroughfare, lying in postcode areas NW1/W1 and forming part of the A41. It used to run south from Regent's Park, the junction with Park Road, parallel to Gloucester Place, meeting Marylebone Road, Portman Square and Wigmore Street. In 2019, the until-then one-way street was changed to accommodate lanes running in both directions.
In 1940 the headquarters of the Special Operations Executive moved to 64 Baker Street, they were often called the "Baker Street Irregulars" after Sherlock Holmes' gang of street urchins of the same name.
What in the world am I looking at?
A few things up close
Sherlock Holmes in deep thought in his arm chairWatson in his arm chair reading the newspaper with a pipe in his hand"V.R." in bullet-pocks on the wall opposite Holmes' arm chair: The Musgrave Ritual
A sofa with a pipe rack within reach on the right: The Adventure of the Blue CarbuncleSmall octagon tables: several Sidney Paget illustrationsA shelf next to Watson's chair containing the American Encyclopedia: The Five Orange Pips
A poker near Watson's arm chair: The Adventure of the Three GablesA bearskin hearthrug near the table: The Adventure of the Priory SchoolA cocaine bottle on the mantlepiece: The Sign of Four
Unanswered letters transfixed by a jack-knife to the center of mantlepiece: The Musgrave RitualA photo of Irene Adler in evening dress: A Scandal in BohemiaA coal scuttle containing cigars, pipes and tobacco: The Musgrave Ritual and The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
A Persian slipper with tobacco in the toe end: The Musgrave RitualA reading lamp which Holmes turned away from himself and towards a vacant chair: The Five Orange PipsA basket chair: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
A violin case leaning in the corner: The Adventure of the Mazarin StoneAn acid-charred bench of chemicals: The Adventure of the Naval Treaty and The Adventure of the Mazarin StoneA bow window: Adventure of the Beryl Coronet and The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
A curtain in front of the bow window alcove: The Adventure of the Mazarin StoneA sideboard: The Five Orange Pips and The Adventure of the Beryl CornetA detachable facsimile of Holmes' head: The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
A gasogene in the corner: A Scandal in BohemiaA spirit case in the corner: A Scandal in BohemiaA cupboard containing oranges: The Five Orange Pips
A case of cigars small enough to be thrown: A Scandal in BohemiaA framed picture of General Gordon: The Resident Patient and The Adventure of the Cardboard BoxAn unframed picture of Henry Ward Beecher: The Resident Patient and The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
A gramophone in Holmes' bedroom: The Adventure of the Mazarin StoneA large tin box in Holmes' bedroom: The Musgrave RitualA second exit in Holmes' bedroom: The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
A space behind the head of the bed large enough to allow Watson to hide: The Adventure of the Dying DetectiveA second door in Holmes' bedroom leading to the bow window: The Adventure of the Mazarin StoneA safe: The Adventure of the Six Napoleons
Some notes related to elements in the Baker Street flat:
A Study in Scarleta couple of bedrooms
a large airy sitting room
two broad windows
a sofa in sitting room
an arm chair
a table for dinner
stairs going down to the street level
Holmes' door at top of stairs
a passage at the top of the stairs
the landlady passes their door to go to bedThe Sign of Foura cocaine bottle on corner of mantlepiece
a velvet lined arm chair
Watson's room upstairs of the sitting roomA Scandal in Bohemiaa window blind which shows Holmes' silhouette as he passes in front of it
a case of cigars small enough to be thrown
a gasogene and spirit case in the corner
seventeen steps leading up from the hall
stairs and a passage outside the door from which they could hear the steps of a visitor The Five Orange Pipschairs on either side of the fireplace
a passage outside the door from which they could hear the step of a visitor
a lamp by Holmes' chair which he turned away from himself and towards a vacant chair
a single vacant chair on which a new-comer must sit
a coat hook
a sideboard
a bottle of water on the sideboard
a shelf next to Watson's chair containing the American Encyclopedia
a cupboard containing oranges
Watson's room upstairs of the sitting room [1] The Adventure of the Blue Carbunclea pipe rack within reach on the right of the sofa
a wooden chair
a basket chairThe Adventure of the Speckled BandWatson's room upstairs of the sitting room
a mantlepiece with a clock in Watson's roomThe Adventure of the Noble Bachelortwo easy chairs
a line of reference books beside the mantlepiece. The Adventure of the Beryl Corneta bow window [2]
the window is big enough for Watson to stand in
the window is big enough for Holmes to look over Watson's shoulder and see the street below
Holmes' chamber upstairs of the sitting room
a mirror (called a "glass") above the fireplace
a sideboard
a joint of beef and rounds of bread upon the sideboard plus a knife to slice the beef
a hall door upstairs of the sitting room (apparently to Holmes' chamber)
Watson's room upstairs of the sitting room The Musgrave Rituala coal scuttle with cigars
a Persian slipper with tobacco in the toe end
unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife to the center of the wooden mantlepiece
"V.R." in bullet-pocks on the wall opposite Holmes' arm chair [3]
chemicals and of criminal relics in "unlikely positions"
bundles of manuscript in every corner
a large tin box in Holmes' bedroom.The Resident Patient (also in The Adventure of the Cardboard Box) a framed picture of General Gordon with a corresponding bare space
an unframed picture of Henry Ward Beecher which stands on top of Watson's books
Watson could see these from his chair
Holmes could see Watson's face from his position curled upon the sofaThe Adventure of the Naval Treaya side table for working on a chemical investigationThe Adventure of the Priory Schoola bearskin hearthrug near the table
a table between the door and the hearthrugThe Adventure of Black Petera room just off the sitting roomThe Adventure of the Six Napoleonsa lumber room upstairs of the sitting room which was packed with daily papers
a safeThe Hound of the BaskervillesHolmes' chair at the breakfast table faces away from the hearthrug
the sofa is a settee
Watson has a small medical shelf of books placed highThe Adventure of the Dying Detectivepictures of celebrated criminals adorning every wall in Holmes' room
a black and white ivory box on mantlepiece
a space behind the head of the bed large enough to allow Watson to hide The Adventure of the Mazarin Stonescientific charts on the wall
an acid-charred bench of chemicals
a violin case leaning in corner
a coal scuttle containing pipes and tobacco
a gasogene and cigar case together in their old place (the corner, according to A Scandal in Bohemia)
a waiting room downstairs
a bow window
a blind on the bow window
a bow window alcove large enough to hold a chair
a curtain in front of this alcove
Holmes' bedroom just off the sitting room [4]
a second exit in Holmes' bedroom
a gramophone in Holmes' bedroom
a second door in Holmes' bedroom leading to the bow window behind the curtainThe Adventure of the Three Gablesa low arm chair on one side of the fire
another chair opposite it
a table between the door and Holmes' chair
a poker near Watson's arm chairThe Problem of Thor Bridgethe back yard is visible from Watson's room
Watson's room is upstairs of the sitting roomThe Adventure of the Veiled Lodgera pile of commonplace books in the corner
Footnotes
[1] Regarding the rooms upstairs which include Watson's bedroom and Holmes' chamber as well as a lumber room, I would love to make a second illustration depicting those rooms, but there is not enough data; I would be supplying most of the details from my own imagination and speculation.
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[2] Regarding the bow window, we read in A Study in Scarlet that there were two broad windows, but in the same story, Mr. Jefferson Hope after he had been handcuffed, "hurled himself through the window" and that "wood and glass gave way before him." This seems to imply that there was but one large window and that it was large enough for a man to be tempted to jump through. In The Sign of Four Watson is standing "at the window" watching Mary Morstan walking down the street, and later he "sat in the window" with a book in his hand. In The Adventure of the Beryl Cornet Watson wrote, "...I stood one morning in our bow window looking down the street" and that Holmes stood behind him, looking over his shoulder out the same window, rather than simply look out a window next to it. These accounts seem to indicate that they had only one bow window facing the street, and that it was large enough for an adult to stand and sit in it and even jump through it. It is always referred to as "the window" rather than "one of the windows" so I have placed the second window on the other side of the room and made it a regular window and not a bow window to reconcile the various accounts.
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