Enford Street
Enford Street is a residential street in the western section of Marylebone, running through the W1H postal district and falling within the landholding of the Portman Estate. The estate, which has managed these 110 acres of Marylebone since 1532 when the family first acquired eleven fields in the area, covers 69 streets and four garden squares between Edgware Road to the west and Baker Street to the east.
Enford Street sits within the quieter residential fabric that lies north of Oxford Street and south of Crawford Street, away from the principal commercial thoroughfares. The street connects into the grid of roads the Portman family developed from the mid-eighteenth century onward, intended from the outset to provide well-ordered housing for professional and upper-middle-class residents.
The surrounding area retains much of its Georgian and early Victorian terraced character, with the Portman Estate remaining actively involved in the conservation and management of the built environment. The street is largely residential in use, with the scale and proportion of buildings typical of the estate's more modest secondary streets rather than its principal frontages. Crawford Street and Seymour Place to the north and south respectively provide the main pedestrian connections to local amenities. Nearby Portman Square anchors the southern portion of the estate and offers a sense of the formal Georgian planning that shaped the entire neighbourhood. The area is well served by Edgware Road and Marble Arch Underground stations.
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