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Montagu Place
Montagu Place is a short street in the W1H postal district, running between Montagu Square and Upper Montagu Street within the western portion of the Portman Estate. The street and the square it adjoins were laid out around 1810 to 1811, as part of J.T. Parkinson's development of the Bryanston Square and Montagu Square scheme on behalf of the estate.
The buildings on Montagu Place are Grade II listed and date from the same Regency building campaign. They present the characteristic stock brick facade with channelled stucco at ground floor level, slate roofs and five storeys including a basement, consistent with the restrained Georgian terraces built across the Portman Estate during this period. Numbers 1 to 3, 4 and 5, and 13 are among the individually listed properties, all constructed within the same brief window of development.
The street's name commemorates Elizabeth Montagu, the celebrated eighteenth-century writer and literary patron who commissioned a grand house on the Marylebone estate in 1775. Montagu House, completed in 1781, hosted a famous housewarming breakfast attended by approximately 700 guests. The house was later demolished after sustaining bomb damage in the Second World War. The square and place that bear her name represent the most tangible surviving connection to her presence in this part of Marylebone. For the wider estate context, Portman Square lies a short distance to the south and anchors the full Portman holding.
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