Grafton Street, Mayfair’, the Georgian Group Journal, Vol
Richard Garnier, ‘Grafton Street, Mayfair’, The Georgian Group Journal, Vol. XIII, 2003, pp. 201–272 TEXT © THE AUTHORS 2003 GRAFTON STREET, MAYFAIR RICHARD GARNIER he Corporation of London’s acre Conduit premises, specifically aimed at the upper end of the TMead Estate in the West End of London is market. At the same time it will be shown, first, that it approximately bordered on the east by New Bond was the Earl of Albemarle and James Paine, not the Street (with an eastward projection encompassing Duke of Grafton and Taylor, who first planned to Conduit Street) and on the north by Oxford Street. redevelop the street. Second, it can now be shown Its boundary on the west is formed by the curving that Taylor’s scheme was much more extensive than line of the Ay (or Tyburn) Brook, which sweeps previously thought, at first comprising houses southwards via South Molton Street, Bruton Place (not ), later reduced by Taylor to . Third, even and Bruton Lane, to the bottom of Hay Hill. From though the Duke of Grafton was the prime mover in there the southern boundary of the estate cuts back the development, it was not on his land alone but to Bond Street. While the extent of the City’s holding also that of his immediate neighbour, John Roberts. in this corner of the West End is well established, The scheme thus not only encompassed the outer the development of the southern portion of the terraces of Grafton Street (a dog leg), but extended Conduit Mead, incidentally one of the last parts of some way down the east side of Albemarle Street and Mayfair to be built over systematically, has never the west side of Bond Street and included the south been adequately fixed, beyond the basic information side of Grafton Street between those two streets.
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