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Yesterday's fire on the B506 (Great Portland Street W1 to me and you) was a set-back for the developers of "17 Uncommon Apartments" (priced from £950k).

Darling Associates are the architects of 38 Langham Street; behind the charred scaffolding they may not yet have got to the work of interior designers, No. 12 Studio. The money comes from Altum Capital, a property investment company in Mayfair, and Great Marlborough Estates, run by Dean Clifford and Grant Lipton, along with Sir Stuart Lipton who is a non-exec. The building is Grade II listed.

Habituees of the nearby Yorkshire Grey will be hoping there's only minor impact to their hospitality; perhaps an additional smoky piquancy to their excellent pork scratchings....