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Harley Place
Harley Place is a cobbled mews tucked behind the principal streets of the Howard de Walden Estate in central Marylebone, carrying a W1G postcode. Like the larger mews streets of the estate, it originated as a service lane providing stabling and storage for the grander terraced houses on the surrounding streets.
The Howard de Walden Estate traces its ownership of this part of Marylebone to Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford, who began developing Cavendish Square and the surrounding grid from 1715 onward. The estate passed eventually to Lucy, Baroness Howard de Walden, in 1889 and has remained in that family's management since, covering roughly 92 acres from Marylebone High Street east to Portland Place. Mews properties like Harley Place sat at the rear of the estate's residential streets, their original equestrian function long since replaced by residential and studio use as the twentieth century progressed.
Today Harley Place presents a quietly secluded character, with period buildings lining a courtyard-like setting that reflects the renovation typical of Marylebone's mews over the past forty years. The lane sits within easy reach of Harley Street to its east and Marylebone High Street to the west, placing it at the geographical centre of the Howard de Walden Estate's residential quarter. Properties here are now sought-after family homes, the stables having given way to generous internal arrangements on a human scale.
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