Hallam Street
Hallam Street runs north from Broadcasting House toward New Cavendish Street, occupying a quiet corridor on the eastern side of Marylebone within the Harley Street Conservation Area. It is part of the Howard de Walden Estate and carries a W1W postcode.
The street was formerly known as both Charlotte Street and Duke Street before being renamed in the early twentieth century. The name honours Henry Hallam (1777 to 1859), the historian and local resident, and his son Arthur Henry Hallam (1811 to 1833), whose early death prompted Tennyson's elegy In Memoriam. The street appears on Richard Horwood's London map of the 1790s, developed under the Dukes of Portland who held much of eastern Marylebone during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As original building leases expired from the late nineteenth century onward, earlier Georgian houses gave way to larger mansion and office blocks, and the present buildings are predominantly five to eight storeys.
The street attracted a notable sequence of residents: painters Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Sell Cotman, and Cornelius Varley all lived here, as did conductor Sir Henry Wood, founder of the Proms, and American broadcaster Edward R. Murrow. The proximity of Harley Street to the west gives the wider conservation area its distinctive professional character.
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