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Henrietta Place
Henrietta Place is a short east-west street in the heart of Marylebone, running from Cavendish Square westward to Marylebone Lane. It sits within the Howard de Walden Estate's territory and forms part of the dense Georgian grid laid out in the early eighteenth century as the Cavendish-Harley family developed their Marylebone Fields holdings.
The street takes its name from Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles (1694-1755), only daughter of John Holles, Duke of Newcastle, and wife of Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford. It was the Harley family's marriage into the Cavendish-Holles line that brought this part of Marylebone into their estate, and they commemorated the connection throughout the street grid: Cavendish Square, Wigmore Street, Mortimer Street and Henrietta Place all draw their names from this same family network.
The street was developed from around the 1720s and 1730s as residential building spread northward from Oxford Street. Its position just off Cavendish Square gave it immediate proximity to one of Marylebone's most formal set pieces, and the properties here attracted professional and medical tenants throughout the Georgian and Victorian periods, in keeping with the wider district's character.
Today Henrietta Place is primarily commercial, with office and retail uses predominating. Bond Street Underground station is a short walk to the south-west, giving the street strong connectivity to the wider West End.
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