Henrietta Place, originally known as Henrietta Street, is a street in

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in the

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in central London that runs from Marylebone Lane in the east to

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in the west. It is joined on the north side by

Welbeck Street Welbeck Street is a street in the West End, central London. It has historically been associated with the medical profession. Location The street runs approximately north–south between New Cavendish Street at the northern end, crossing Wigm ...

and Wimpole Street, and on the south side by Vere Street,

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, and

Old Cavendish Street Old Cavendish Street, originally Cavendish Street, is a street in Marylebone in the City of Westminster in central London that runs from Henrietta Place in the north to Oxford Street in the south. History and buildings The street was one of th ...

History

Henrietta Street, now Place, was named after Lady Henrietta Cavendish, the 18th century heiress to the Manor of Marylebone lands and the wife of Edward Harley after whom

Harley Street Harley Street is a street in Marylebone, Central London, which has, since the 19th century housed a large number of private specialists in medicine and surgery. It was named after Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer.< ...

was named. The street was laid out around 1729 when the area, which was previously rural, was urbanised using a grid plan.Aldous, Tony. (1980) ''The Illustrated London News Book of London's Villages''. London: Secker & Warburg. p. 87. During the nineteenth century the street fell out of favour and in the twentieth century parts of the western end were redeveloped when the Marshall & Snelgrove department store on the south side was redeveloped as Debenhams and the Welbeck Street car park built for the store on the north side.

Buildings

On the north side of the street is the Welbeck Street car park and The Royal Society of Medicine which has its entrance in Wimpole Street. Between them is Henrietta House which is owned by Lazari Investments and occupied by property firm CBRE Group since 2011 after

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moved out. It was designed by

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of the Building Design Partnership and incorporates at first floor level on the exterior a series of fifteen

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sculptures by

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commissioned by the

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to show the architectural history of Britain. The project was the winner of the

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Art for Architecture award in 1990. At the Cavendish Square end on the north side is the Royal College of Nursing. The south side of the street is dominated by the back of retail premises on Oxford Street such as the Debenhams and

House of Fraser House of Fraser (also operating as Frasers) is a British department store group with 44 locations across the United Kingdom, which is now part of Frasers Group. It was established in Glasgow, Scotland in 1849 as Arthur and Fraser. By 1891, it w ...

(previously D.H. Evans) department stores. The Debenhams store was built in the late 1960s or early 1970s to replace a

Marshall & Snelgrove Marshall & Snelgrove was a department store on the north side of Oxford Street, London, on the corner with Vere Street founded by James Marshall (b.1806 Yorkshire – d.22 November 1893). The company became part of the Debenhams group. Histor ...

store on the same site. Between them is the church of St Peter, Vere Street, a grade I listed building also known as the Oxford Chapel or the Marylebone Chapel, the architect of which was James Gibbs who also lived in the street.St Peter’s, Vere Street.
Survey of London, UCL, 15 January 2016. Retrieved 8 December 2016. Henrietta Passage once ran south into the centre of the buildings that were on the site now occupied by House of Fraser. Between 1724 and 1732, Gibbs designed and built four houses in the street, living in number 5 from 1731 until his death in 1754 and letting numbers 9, 10, and 11. Number 11 was demolished in 1956 when the site was acquired by Debenhams. The parlour from the house was donated to the

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where it is now on display.Parlour from 11 Henrietta Street.
Victoria & Albert Museum. Retrieved 8 December 2016.

Notable inhabitants

*James Gibbs, architect *Countess of Mornington, mother of the

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William Theed William Theed, also known as William Theed the younger (1804 – 9 September 1891), was a British sculptor, the son of the sculptor and painter William Theed the elder (1764–1817). Although versatile and eclectic in his works, he specialised ...

, sculptor, creator of the group "Asia" on the Albert Memorial.William Theed.
''Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951'', University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011. Retrieved 7 January 2017. *Honorable Lady Grace Cosby (née Montagu) (1687- 23 Dec 1767), Daughter of British Royal Descent to Lady Elizabeth Pelham and Hon. Edward Montagu, MP. And widowed wife of Brig-Gen. Sir William Cosby, 24th Governor of New York Province, New Jersey & Territories, Colonial America.

Gallery

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map

References

External links

* {{coord, 51.51587, -0.14581, display=title, region:GB_type:landmark Streets in the City of Westminster Marylebone