Treasure House, 19-21 Hatton Garden, London, EC1N 8BA

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Location

Hatton Garden is a highly sought after location. The building is a three-minute walk from Farringdon Station (Crossrail), which benefits from the Elizabeth, Metropolitan, Circle, and Hammersmith & City lines. Within easy walking distance are many notable eating and drinking establishments such as Ye Olde Mitre (25m) and the Bleeding Heart Brasserie (125m) in Bleeding Heart Yard. The daughter of Sir Christopher Hatton - after whom Hatton Garden was named - was found murdered in Bleeding Heart Yard. 

Description

An entire Lower Ground, rear Ground floor and all upper parts. Grade II Listed heritage and features throughout. Including Marble columns, wood panelled and tiles grand staircase, Sash Windows and parquet flooring. The property does have AC and a lift. It appears relatively DDA compliant too.

The property is a self-contained building (excluding the retail) that was comprehensively refurbished to a high specification approx. 7 years ago. It was formerly occupied by a serviced office operator and is therefore fairly heavily partitioned. However, there are a variety of spaces and floors which are also more open plan. The landlord wishes to see if a new tenant may be able to repurpose the building, as is, before undertaking a greater refurbishment, yet there could be a discussion to enable refurbishment works, for a higher rent than quoted herein. The office element of this building has no retail frontage albeit an attractive entrance, as the ground floor fronting Hatton Garden are retail jewellery shops. It represents an attractive fitted/unfitted HQ opportunity or educational/serviced office/training facility. 

History

Treasure House was commissioned in 1906, completed in 1907 by David Stewart Dawson, founder of Stewart Dawson Jewellers (1849-1932). He started business in Liverpool in the mid-1870s, selling watches by mail order. In the '80s he opened his first retail branches in Australia and New Zealand, where he became a household name for quality and service. He imported much of his stock from London, where he maintained an administrative HQ at 20 Hatton Garden. It was this site that he had developed to build The Treasure House. It was very advanced for the time, with electric lifts, showrooms and a whole floor set aside as a customers' lounge. He later opened a shop on Regent Street but at the end of WW1 he withdrew from the UK business and spent the remainder of his life in Sydney, having moved very successfully into real estate. He died a billionaire in today's values. 

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