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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 the late 19th century was a high-class residential district, and Holmes's apartment would probably have been part of a Georgian terrace.

For other uses, see 221B Baker Street (disambiguation).

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 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.[1] 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. Its postal code is NW1 6XE.

In the animated film (1986), based on the Basil of Baker Street book series, Basil resides in 221½ Baker Street, a mouse-hole beneath 221B Baker Street.[9]

The Great Mouse Detective

Private detective Louie Knight moves into an office at 22/1B Stryd-y-Popty (which translates as Baker Street in Welsh) in 's Welsh Noir parody The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth.

Malcolm Pryce

The 1987 movie The Return of Sherlock Holmes (not to be confused with the 1986 British television series of the same name) features Holmes, cryogenically frozen in 1899 and awakened in modern times, trying to adapt with the aid of Watson's granddaughter, Jane. He seeks out his old residence and finds the spot occupied by a McDonald's franchise.[10]

CBS

the protagonist of House, M.D., lives at 221 Baker Street, Apartment B, Princeton, New Jersey.[11]

Dr. Gregory House

in the cartoon show of the same name, lives in a pillar box near 221b Baker Street.[12] However, Danger Mouse is a loose parody of Danger Man and James Bond, rather than Sherlock Holmes. The pillar box is a stone's throw away from 221B Baker Street and Dr. Watson throws stones at them in apparent jealousy that he only works for the world's greatest detective, not the world's greatest secret agent in the episode "Where There's a Well, There's a Way".

Danger Mouse

In the series by Kerry Greenwood, the detective Hon. Phryne Fisher resides at 221 The Esplanade, St Kilda (Melbourne, Australia), which she renumbers to 221B in homage to Holmes.[13]

Phryne Fisher

In , Data tells another crew member that Geordi La Forge can be found at 221b Baker St, episode 29 "Elementary, Dear Data" (1988), and 221b Baker St. is again referenced in episode 137 "Ship in a Bottle" (1993).[14]

Star Trek: The Next Generation

In the 2013 Season 2, Episode 1 of , Sherlock Holmes and Joan Watson visit London and stay in a second floor residence numbered 221B. Sherlock indicates he had happily resided there before his move to New York City.[15]

Elementary

In the 2015 film , a long-retired Holmes (Ian McKellen) remarks that the Baker Street address is one of several fictitious details created by Watson, who wrote the cases up as sensationalist stories for publication. In a flashback, as curious onlookers gather outside 221B, Holmes watches from a window of his actual residence nearby and congratulates a client for finding the right address.[16]

Mr. Holmes

The Television series Sherlock has used 187 North Gower Street to represent 221B Baker Street for shooting the exterior scenes of Sherlock Holmes's flat. The location is near Euston railway station, and roughly a mile away from the real Baker Street.[17]

BBC

In the 2012–2015 Australian television series , the title character of The Honourable Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis) lives at 221B Baker Street in Melbourne, Victoria.[18]

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

The fictional address has been portrayed in the following pastiches of Sherlock Holmes:

Sir

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes

a Victorian era themed public house in Northumberland Street, London, with another recreation of the 221B Baker Street interior

The Sherlock Holmes

The United Kingdom website

The Sherlock Holmes Museum

an Irregular quarterly of Sherlockiana

The Baker Street Journal

221B Baker Street Floor Plan Illustration

221b Blue Plaque

221b Baker Street, United Kingdom

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