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Homer Row
Homer Row is a short street in the western section of Marylebone, running from Old Marylebone Road in the north to the junction of Crawford Place and Crawford Street in the south. Its postcodes fall within W1H, placing it firmly in the Portman Estate's grid of streets west of Baker Street.
The street belongs to a cluster of classically named thoroughfares developed on Portman Estate land, including Cato Street, Homer Street and Virgil Place nearby. According to the street-names historian Gillian Bebbington, this classical naming convention was inspired by a man named Edward Homer, who was a friend of John Simon Harcourt, the landowner on whose ground these streets were built. The names were not simply a Georgian fashion for antiquity; they had a local personal connection.
Homer Row includes a Grade II listed building at the junction with Old Marylebone Road, and the street's built fabric reflects the mixed development typical of this part of Marylebone: Georgian terrace stock alongside later residential infill, including a 1970s block originally constructed for local authority tenants. This mixture of periods and tenures was already present by the late Victorian era.
The street sits close to Marylebone High Street and the retail and residential amenities of the wider neighbourhood, while retaining the quieter residential character of the Portman Estate's outer streets.
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