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Old Cavendish Street
Old Cavendish Street, originally known simply as Cavendish Street, runs from Henrietta Place in the north down to Oxford Street in the south, within the W1G postcode. It is one of the short north-south connectors that stitch the Cavendish Square grid to Oxford Street, and its modest length belies its historical significance as one of the earliest streets named in the Cavendish-Harley Estate development.
The street was laid out in the early 1700s when the Harley family began urbanising their land north of Oxford Street on a regular grid plan. It takes its name from Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles, the heiress to the Manor of Marylebone whose marriage to Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford, united the Cavendish and Harley fortunes. The same marriage gave the district Harley Street to its west and Cavendish Square at the top of the grid. The street was later distinguished as Old Cavendish Street to avoid confusion with the New Cavendish Street laid out further north in 1775.
The nearest Underground station is Bond Street, a short walk to the south-west. The street today is primarily commercial at ground floor level, with a mix of retail and professional tenants, and occupies a transitional position between the shopping character of Oxford Street and the quieter professional tone of the streets inside the estate to the north. Its architecture reflects the Georgian framework beneath later Victorian and twentieth-century alterations.
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