Alfred Place is a street in

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, London, running between Chenies Street and Store Street.

Location

Alfred Place runs from Chenies Street in the north to

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in the south. It runs parallel with

Ridgmount Street Ridgmount Street is a street in Bloomsbury, London. Location Ridgmount Street runs from Chenies Street in the north to Store Street in the south. It runs parallel with Gower Street and Alfred Place. Ridgmount Place joins Ridgmount Street on ...

and

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. There is a cycle hire point at the south end of the street.

Buildings

The street is home to: *One Alfred Place. A private member's club. *The Residential Property Tribunal for the London area at number 10. *Whittington House, on the north east corner with Chenies Street, designed by architect Richard Seifert who also designed nearby

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. According to Ruth Siddall of

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, the building is "faced with close-fitted, highly polished, black Rustenburg Bon Accord Gabbro from the Bushveld lopolith in the Transvaal, South Africa .... composed of interlocking crystals of white feldspar and black pyroxene."

Inhabitants

The poet

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(1777–1844) lived in Alfred Place in 1837.Williams, George G. Assisted by Marian and Geoffrey Williams. (1973) ''Guide to Literary London''. London:

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, p. 134. Irish dramatist,

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(1784–1862), lived at number 29.Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

References

External links

*http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol5/pt2/pp186-187 *http://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-project/streets/alfred_place.htm *https://web.archive.org/web/20150910040348/http://www.soane.org/collections/architectural_drawings/georgian_regency/town_planning_leasing_layout/3 Streets in the London Borough of Camden {{London-stub