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Walmer Street
Walmer Street is a residential street in the western section of Marylebone, within the Portman Estate. It carries the W1U postcode and occupies the characteristic position of a minor connecting street within the Georgian grid that the Portman family began to develop systematically from the 1760s.
The Portman Estate covers approximately 110 acres of Marylebone, running from Edgware Road in the west to beyond Baker Street in the east. The estate encompasses 68 streets and 650 buildings. Streets such as Walmer Street, set within the grid alongside classically named routes such as Homer Row and Virgil Place, represent the secondary fabric of that development, providing address and access for the residential terraces arranged around the estate's principal streets and squares.
Historical records note the presence of a Walmer Castle on Walmer Street, described in nineteenth-century trade directories as a coffee tavern and later a temperance hotel, reflecting the social-reform movements that operated alongside the more conventional public houses of the period. A blue plaque on the building commemorated Emma Cons, the social reformer and suffragist who was responsible for reopening the Royal Victorian Theatre near Waterloo as a temperance venue in 1880, which subsequently became the Old Vic.
The street is today a residential address, close to the amenities of Chiltern Street and the wider Portman Estate.
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