Present-day Berry Street was formerly three streets: Gardens or Gardener’s Street, later called Berry Street; Hooper Street, named after a seventeenth-century tenant of the Charterhouse, and Cross Street. They were united as Berry Street in 1889
No. 1 Berry St also has a return on Clerkenwell Road. The design uses a combination of red and dark brown bricks for the different segments of the façade, with white painted piers and metal windows between the piers.
No. 2 Berry Street is part of No. 18 Clerkenwell Rd, which is a former warehouse property faced in light red-brick and with spaced windows in concrete surrounds.
No. 4, which is also called Berry House, also fronts onto Great Sutton Street (where it is No. 15 Great Sutton Street). Berry Houses was built in 1937 for precious metal refiners, bullion dealers, and sweep smelters. The building is faced in bands of fletton and white gault bricks with concrete lintels. It was a combination of factory and offices, with a metal refinery in the basement, a showroom on the ground floor, and offices.
In 1996–7 the building was converted to offices and apartments by the architects Campbell & Campbell, who lengthened most of the window openings, and added the upper-floor metal balconies and roof extension. A large metal clock on the Berry Street front is a relic of Lawson, Ward & Gammage, wholesale jewellers, who were here for some years from the 1950s.
Nos 12–14 Berry Street was a set of warehouses built in 1892. It has a facing of white gault bricks.
Much of Berry Street is taken up by the sides of buildings whose main façades and entrances are on other streets. Northburgh House, No. 10 Nothburgh Street, has a lengthy side along Berry Street. Another is 16 Brewhouse Yard.
