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Wythburn Place
Wythburn Place is a short cobbled mews off Portman Square territory, running between Seymour Place and the streets to its east in the W1H postal district. It sits firmly within the Portman Estate, whose landholding once extended across roughly 270 acres of what had been farmland and marshland on the western side of Marylebone.
The mews was originally constructed in the early nineteenth century, between approximately 1810 and 1820, as part of the wider residential expansion around Bryanston Square and Montagu Square. Its original purpose was coach house and stable accommodation serving the larger properties on Great Cumberland Place and the surrounding streets. The name itself derives from Wythburn, a hamlet and fell in the Lake District of Cumberland, chosen in keeping with the Portman Estate's convention of naming its streets after places connected to the Portman family's landholdings. The mews was formally renamed Wythburn Place in the 1930s, having previously been Wythburn Mews, largely at the request of residents who were converting the old stabling into residential use.
The Second World War left a visible mark. Bomb damage destroyed the western entrance, which had originally passed beneath a covered archway, and a six-storey brick block, Wythburn Court, now occupies a substantial portion of the northern side. The eastern entrance retains its original tunnel-passage character. The surviving period houses are two-storey, with plain and painted brickwork, and the cobbled surface remains intact. A Conservation Area designation now governs new development.
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