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Oct 8, 2024 · The ground on the south side of the street formed part of the freehold granted by the Crown to the Earl of St. Albans's trustees in 1665, as did the ground on the north side between St. James's Square and Duke Street.
Oct 8, 2024 · Lord Amherst, the tenant at No. 88 Brook Street, agreed to take a large proportion of the new stabling, which was built to the designs of Balfour and his partner Thackeray Turner in 1900–2 by Jonathan Andrews, who also formed the roadway of the new Duke's Yard at the same time.
This corner block fronting north on King Street and east on the Piazza was built in 1883–5 (Plate 48a). The design is uniform but Nos. 3–4, fronting some 42 feet to King Street, were the first to be built, a fact reflected in a perceptible difference of material between the two parts.
No. 2.—The plot of ground on which this house was erected was sold on 1st June, 1676, (fn. 252) and in 1678–81 the house was in the occupation of Edward Christian, who built several houses on the York House estate.
Jun 9, 2021 · Beyond Lansdowne Circus, to the north and east, Thomas was responsible for the layout of several streets of workers’ houses and cottages, in streets such as Duke Street. Curiously these houses appear to be terraced, but on closer inspection, the brickwork, like that of the Crescent, is not linked.
Apr 14, 2011 · The caricaturist Robert Cruikshank (elder brother of George Cruikshank) lodged in a house in King Street with his wife Sarah (née Skyrme) and their young sons in the 1820s on their way up the social scale (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography)
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Duke Street is named after the Duke of Cumberland, a royal Duke, known as “Butcher Cumberland”, from the terrible Battle of Culloden.
