Number 53 is quite an eye-catcher, at least above the ground floor. This exuberant Edwardian building is now home to a mobile phone shop, but has roots in a rather older medium. In 1760, publisher Robert Sayer moved his shop here. He not only sold prints and maps, but also employed a number of engravers to produce them in a manufactory across the road in Bolt Court. Sayer was succeeded by his former assistants Laurie & Whittle; the shop persisted here under the Laurie name until 1895, when it moved to Minories.
As for its twentieth-century incarnation, Pevsner has little to say except to describe the new building as 'a bizarre Flamboyant Gothic confection'. It's certainly hard to disagree with that!