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Great Castle Street
Great Castle Street runs east to west through the southern fringe of Marylebone, connecting Great Portland Street to the area around Oxford Circus. It falls within the W1W postal district and sits on land originally developed as part of the Cavendish-Harley Estate from the early eighteenth century.
The street takes its name from the Castle Inn, a tavern that stood near Hanway Place on Oxford Street in the 1670s. Early development of the block between Market Place and Great Castle Street proceeded slowly: a 1719 plan left a significant portion as open space, and the western section was not fully built up until the mid-1750s. By the early twentieth century the street had acquired a distinct commercial character, with the lace and drapery trades dominating both sides of the street. This pattern of mixed residential and trade use shaped the area's built form, producing a streetscape of modest commercial frontages rather than the grander residential terraces found on streets to the north.
Today Great Castle Street is a thoroughfare of offices and retail, running close to Oxford Street to its south. Buildings from the early twentieth century survive alongside later replacements, and the street retains a functional, commercial identity that distinguishes it from the more residential quarters of the Howard de Walden Estate further north.
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