221B Baker Street was the London residence of the famous literary detective Sherlock Holmes, created by author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The number followed by a letter is a separate number in law and indicated an apartment on the 1st floor (US - 2nd floor) of a residential lodging house that was likely to have formed part of a Georgian terrace.
The site of the house — had it ever existed (see below) — has been much disputed by scholars, although t...
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