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Molyneux Street
Molyneux Street is a quiet residential street in the W1H postal district, situated in the western portion of Marylebone within the Portman Estate. It sits within its own designated conservation area, first designated by Westminster City Council on 28 March 1974 and extended on three subsequent occasions through to 1994, reflecting the quality and coherence of its early nineteenth-century streetscape.
The street is characterised by terraces of narrow-fronted, stock brick buildings typical of the early 1800s, most standing three storeys above a basement. Many remain in use as single-family dwellings, which is unusual for streets this close to the West End. The listed terraces at numbers 6 to 9 and 16 to 23 feature round-arched entrances, sash windows and stucco ground floors, all consistent with the restrained Regency style favoured across the Portman Estate during that period of development.
The Portman Estate, which has managed this part of Marylebone since Sir William Portman first leased the land in 1532, formally began developing the London holdings in 1755 under Henry William Berkeley Portman. By 1820 the development of the estate was largely complete. Molyneux Street sits within the estate's western holdings, close to the green spaces of both Regent's Park to the north and Hyde Park to the south. The street connects into Portman Square, one of the four garden squares at the centre of the estate.
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