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Montagu Street
Montagu Street runs north to south through the western part of Marylebone, connecting Montagu Square to Montagu Place within the Portman Estate. Like the square it adjoins, the street was laid out as part of architect J. T. Parkinson's early nineteenth-century development of this section of the estate, with construction proceeding through the leasing of land to speculative builders. No. 12 Montagu Street, for example, dates to approximately 1810 to 1820 and is attributed to Parkinson's programme of works.
The street presents a characteristic Portman Estate face: stock-brick terraced town houses of two to four storeys, stuccoed at ground level, with consistent cornice lines and restrained window proportions. These buildings sit within the disciplined grid of streets that extends westward from Baker Street toward Edgware Road, all laid out to a coherent residential pattern intended to attract a prosperous middle-class occupancy.
Today Montagu Street remains predominantly residential, with the quiet character expected of streets set back from the principal traffic routes of the estate. Its position between Montagu Square and the broader network of Portman Estate streets places it in one of the more settled corners of Marylebone, away from the commercial activity that clusters around Marylebone High Street to the east.
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