Carlyle Mansions is a block of flats located on Cheyne Walk, in the Chelsea area of London, England. Built in 1886, it was named after Thomas Carlyle, himself a resident of Chelsea for much of his life.^[1]

Carlyle Mansions is nicknamed the "Writers’ Block", as it has been home to Henry James, Erskine Childers, T. S. Eliot, Somerset Maugham, Ian Fleming and other noted authors.^[1][2]

Notable residents

• No. 1: Richard Addinsell, English composer
• No. 6: Thomas Hare, English political reformer
• No. 11: Gordon Harker, English actor
  • also Edward Robey, lawyer in the Acid Bath Murders case of the serial killer John George Haigh
• No. 12a: Melton Prior, English illustrator and war correspondent
• No. 19: T. S. Eliot, American poet and writer
  • also the literary critic John Davy Hayward
• No. 20: Robert Erskine Childers, Irish nationalist and novelist, author of The Riddle of the Sands
• No. 21: Henry James, American novelist
• No. 24: Ian Fleming, novelist, creator of James Bond
  • also Sol Campbell, England and Arsenal football player
• No. 27: W. Somerset Maugham, British novelist
• Lionel Davidson, British novelist