6 Chesterfield Street, with W. Somerset Maugham blue plaque
Chesterfield Street is a "virtually intact" Georgian street (except for No. 6, which is a reconstruction)
[1] in London's
Mayfair district. Several of the buildings are
Grade II listed on the
National Heritage List for England .
[2]
Location
Chesterfield Street runs south to north from
Curzon Street to
Charles Street .
[3]
History
Chesterfield House in 1760, published in Walford's Old & New London (1878)
It is named after
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield , and bounded the grounds to the east of what was
Chesterfield House .
[3]
Notable buildings
The
gentleman's club
White's was founded at No. 4 in 1693; in 1778 it moved to 37–38
St James's Street .
The
High Commission of The Bahamas is at No. 10.
The individual listed buildings on Chesterfield Street are 1,
[4]
2,
[5] 10,
[6] 11,
[7] 14,
[8] and 15.
[9] 8 and 9 and 12 and 13 Chesterfield Street are listed in pairs.
[10]
[11]
Notable residents
Beau Brummell blue plaque at No. 4
Notable residents have included
Beau Brummell , the
Earl of Dundonald
[3] and the Indian businessman
Neeraj Kanwar .
[12]
[13]
Sir Rodney Mundy ,
Admiral of the Fleet died at his home in Chesterfield Street in 1884.
No. 1,
Lord Dudley
[3]
No. 1,
Herbert Jenner-Fust , judge, died there in 1852.
No. 3,
Caroline Norton , social reformer and author
[3]
No. 4,
Beau Brummell
[3]
[14]
No. 4,
Anthony Eden , prime minister, lived there 1955–57.
[15]
No. 4, The
Duke of Devonshire lived there in the late 1990s.
[16]
No. 6,
W. Somerset Maugham , novelist and playwright, lived there 1911–19.
No. 7,
Ivy Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland
No. 8,
Francis Douglas, Viscount Drumlanrig , eldest son of
John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry , was born there.
[17]
No. 11,
Sir Robert Adair , diplomat
[3]
References
^ Andrew Duncan (2008).
Walking London: Thirty Original Walks in and Around London . New Holland Publishers. p. 78.
ISBN
978-1-84773-054-1 . Retrieved 4 October 2017 .
^
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/results?q=chesterfield street&county=City of Westminster&parish=-1&searchtype=nhlesearch&searchResultsPerPage=20
^
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b
c
d
e
f
g
"Mayfair - British History Online" . www.british-history.ac.uk . Retrieved 4 October 2017 .
^
Historic England ,
"1 Chesterfield Street (1066267)" ,
National Heritage List for England , retrieved 5 October 2017
^
Historic England ,
"2 Chesterfield Street (1066268)" ,
National Heritage List for England , retrieved 5 October 2017
^
Historic England ,
"10 Chesterfield Street (1066269)" ,
National Heritage List for England , retrieved 5 October 2017
^
Historic England ,
"11 Chesterfield Street (1291575)" ,
National Heritage List for England , retrieved 5 October 2017
^
Historic England ,
"14 Chesterfield Street (1219227)" ,
National Heritage List for England , retrieved 5 October 2017
^
Historic England ,
"15 Chesterfield Street (1066271)" ,
National Heritage List for England , retrieved 5 October 2017
^
Historic England ,
"8 and 9 Chesterfield Street (1291570)" ,
National Heritage List for England , retrieved 5 October 2017
^
Historic England ,
"12 and 13 Chesterfield Street (1066270)" ,
National Heritage List for England , retrieved 5 October 2017
^
"High-end 'burglars' in court - Court News UK" . courtnewsuk.co.uk . 14 July 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2017 .
^
"Apollo Tyres turns its back on China" . Financial Times . 6 February 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2017 .
^
"BRUMMELL, Beau (1778-1840) - English Heritage" . www.english-heritage.org.uk . Retrieved 4 October 2017 .
^ Hewitson, Jessie (4 October 2017).
"A house with the new status symbol — 'the double blue' " . Retrieved 4 October 2017 – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
^ Turner, Graham (30 March 2001).
"The duke of hazard" . Retrieved 4 October 2017 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
^ The Complete Peerage, Volume X . St Catherine's Press. 1945. p. 707.
External links
Media related to
Chesterfield Street at Wikimedia Commons
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