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Robert Adam Street
Robert Adam Street is a short street in Marylebone's W1U postal area, running off the south side of Portman Square as part of the Portman Estate's Georgian grid. The street first appeared in local rate books in 1780, making it one of the earlier streets laid out as the estate developed northwards and westwards from Oxford Street through the latter decades of the eighteenth century.
The street was originally called Adam Street East, renamed to Adam Street in 1876, and given its present name in 1938 in honour of Robert Adam (1728-1792), the Scottish neoclassical architect who worked extensively in the surrounding area. Although Adam did not design the street itself, his influence on the immediate neighbourhood was considerable: he designed Chandos House on nearby Queen Anne Street (1769-71) and his masterwork Home House at 20 Portman Square, now the Courtauld Institute, stands at the head of the street.
The surrounding Portman Estate fabric is predominantly late-Georgian in character, with period terraces and mansion block conversions that reflect the estate's phased development across roughly two centuries. Robert Adam Street remains a quiet residential and office street, with Baker Street Underground station a short walk to the north.
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