40 Osborn Street

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40 Osborn Street
Contributed by Survey of London on March 30, 2017

This was the site of Orlando Jones & Co.’s patent rice-starch factory in the 1840s. The property was rebuilt in 1903–4 as a house, shop and warehouse for H. O. Ellis who was also the architect, with Michael Calnan as his builder. There was a printers’ workshop to the rear, and an early occupant was Leo Anatole Jouques, a publisher who went on to set up an aviation works. Plans for conversion to a restaurant with a dance hall to the rear, possibly unexecuted, were prepared in 1935–6 by Richard Seifert.¹