Mount Street is an east–west, quite narrow, archetypal street in the

Mayfair Mayfair is an area of Westminster, London, England, in the City of Westminster. It is in Central London and part of the West End. It is between Oxford Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly and Park Lane and one of the most expensive districts ...

district of the

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, London fronted by many mid-rise buildings, mostly of a narrow frontage. The sides of two very grand hotels flank part of either end of the street. Small, high-end property businesses, investment funds and accountancy businesses punctuate the buildings as well as a row of traditional businesses and conversion-style mansion block apartments or, more generally, authentic such homes.

Location

Mount Street runs from

Park Lane Park Lane is a dual carriageway road in the City of Westminster in Central London. It is part of the London Inner Ring Road and runs from Hyde Park Corner in the south to Marble Arch in the north. It separates Hyde Park, London, Hyde Park to ...

in the west to Davies Street in the east. It is crossed by Park Street in the east and

South Audley Street South Audley Street is a major shopping street in Mayfair, London.'South Audley Street: Introduction', in Survey of London: Volume 40, the Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair, Part 2 (The Buildings), ed. F H W Sheppard (London, 1980), pp. 290–291. Bri ...

midway. On the south side Rex and Balfour Places branch off. In the east it leads to

Berkeley Square Berkeley Square is a garden square in the West End of London. It is one of the best known of the many squares in London, located in Mayfair in the City of Westminster. It was laid out in the mid 18th century by the architect William Kent, ...

and Carlos Place, Mount Street Mews and Carpenter Street branch off. A notable area has been set aside to the south of the middle section, a canopy-covered public lawn with benches,

Mount Street Gardens With its very own and UK first Nature Sacred Garden, Landscaper Alessandro McMillan and driving force Lady Anne Gray. The grand ceremony was held with dignitaries from local Mayfair and the surrounding London City. Mount Street Gardens is ...

History

Mount Street was one of the original shopping streets when

was built up.

Buildings

Mount Street is mostly made up of four and five storey older buildings, often with retail premises on the ground floor, and some

mansion block An apartment (American English, Canadian English), flat (British English, Indian English, South African English), tenement ( Scots English), or unit (Australian English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) th ...

s. The residence of the Brazilian ambassador is No. 54. The

Grosvenor House Hotel ] JW Marriott Grosvenor House London, formerly the Grosvenor House Hotel, is a luxury hotel that opened in 1929 in the Mayfair area of London, England. Across from Hyde Park, London, Hyde Park, the hotel is built on the former site of the 19th ...

tops the street while the The Connaught (hotel), Connaught hotel and

Mayfair House The Mayfair House was a historic 14 story apartment building completed in 1925 and located at 401 West Johnson Street in the West Mount Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Penns ...

tail the street.

James Purdey & Sons James Purdey & Sons, or simply Purdey, is a British gunmaker based in London, England specialising in high-end bespoke sporting shotguns and rifles.

is on a corner with South Audley Street. The Terrace of shops and flats at 125-9 is by the architect

William Henry Powell William Henry Powell (February 14, 1823 – October 6, 1879), was an American artist who was born and died in New York City. Powell is known for a painting of the Battle of Lake Erie, of which one copy hangs in the Ohio state capitol building ...

and dates from 1886 to 1887. It is

Grade II listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, H ...

. Scott's is a seafood restaurant at 20 Mount Street. The members club

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is situated at 87-88 Mount Street.

Notable residents

H. H. Asquith Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith (12 September 1852 – 15 February 1928) was a British statesman and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916. He was the last ...

, politician. *

Fanny Burney Frances Burney (13 June 1752 – 6 January 1840), also known as Fanny Burney and later Madame d'Arblay, was an English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright. In 1786–1790 she held the post of "Keeper of the Robes" to Charlotte of Mecklen ...

, at No. 102 *

David Carritt Hugh David Graham Carritt (15 April 1927 – 3 August 1982) was a British art historian, dealer and critic, who was described by ''The New York Times'' as being "responsible for more sensational discoveries in the field of Old Master painting sin ...

(1927-1982), art historian, dealer and critic, at No. 120 *

Lady Mary Coke Lady Mary Coke (6 February 1727 – 30 September 1811) was an English noblewoman known for her letters and private journal. She made pointed observations of people in her circle and political figures. Although not intended for publication, an ed ...

, at No. 34 *

David Meller David Robert Meller (born December 1959) is a British businessman, and the sponsor of an academy trust, and a member of the Department for Education's board of directors, until the scandal surrounding the Presidents Club, of which he was the j ...

(born 1959), businessman, at No. 79 *

Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 (Winston Churchill in the Second World War, ...

(1874-1965), statesman, at No. 105 * Rev. Dr. John Lockman, Canon of Windsor *

Adrian Ward-Jackson Adrian Alexander Ward-Jackson (6 June 1950 – 23 August 1991) was an English art dealer and consultant and arts administrator. He assisted the Getty Museum and the collector Barbara Piasecka Johnson in their acquisition of art at auction. W ...

(1960-1991), art consultant and administrator, at No. 120. *

Frederic Morgan, 5th Baron Tredegar Frederic George Morgan, 5th Baron Tredegar (22 November 1873 — 21 August 1954), Courtesy titles in the United Kingdom, styled the Honourable Frederic Morgan between 1913 and 1949, was a Welsh Peerages in the United Kingdom, peer and Land tenure ...

(1873-1954), Welsh peer and landowner who lived at No. 197.

In popular culture

W. E. Johns William Earl Johns (5 February 189321 June 1968) was an English First World War pilot, and writer of adventure stories, usually written under the pen name Capt. W. E. Johns: best known for creating the fictional air-adventurer ''Biggles''. Earl ...

's creation 'Biggles' had a flat on Mount Street. * In the " Raffles" stories written by

E. W. Hornung Ernest William Hornung (7 June 1866 – 22 March 1921) was an English author and poet known for writing the A. J. Raffles series of stories about a gentleman thief in late 19th-century London. Hornung was educated at Uppingham School; a ...

, the character

Bunny Manders Harry Manders (almost exclusively known as Bunny Manders) is a fictional character in the popular series of Raffles stories by E. W. Hornung. He is the companion of A. J. Raffles, a cricketer and gentleman thief, who makes a living robbing the ...

has a flat in Mount Street. *In

Georgette Heyer Georgette Heyer (; 16 August 1902 – 4 July 1974) was an English novelist and short-story writer, in both the Regency romance and detective fiction genres. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story conceived for her ail ...

’s 1949 publication '

Arabella ''Arabella'', Op. 79, is a lyric comedy, or opera, in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, their sixth and last operatic collaboration. Performance history It was first performed on 1 July 1933 at the D ...

' the wealthy Mr. Beaumaris lived on Mount Street. This book is set in the Regency era, 1817.

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