Endell Street / Nos. 47-83 (odd)

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45-47
49-51
53
55
57-59
61
63
65-69
71
73-77
79
81
83

History

Endell Street was laid out in 1843-6 as part of the street improvements planned in 1839 consequent on the construction of Waterloo Bridge. The aim was to create links between Covent Garden and the West Strand and New Oxford Street and Bloomsbury where Smirke’s huge Grecian British Museum was being completed in a seeming back street. The new streets were planned by James Pennethorne, John Nash’s son-in-law, and the spirit of Nash’s Regency Metropolitan Improvements still conditioned the character of these later developments in the early-Victorian period. Endell Street bypassed Drury Lane and its flanking network of tortuous lanes. As Pevsner noted, the west side retains a nicely varied collection of buildings; several of them are listed.

Long Acre Long Acre Shaftesbury Avenue Charing Cross Road Litchfield Street Mercer Street Mercer Street Earlham Street Earlham Street Shelton Street Shelton Street Shelton Street Shelton Street Dryden Street Arne Street Drury Lane Parker Street Shelton Street West Street Tower Street Monmouth Street Monmouth Street Shorts Gardens Shorts Gardens Neal Street Neal’s Yard Neal Street Neal Street Endell Street Endell Street Endell Street Endell Street Betterton Street Langley Street Langley Ct James Street Floral Street Bow Street Bow Street Shorts Gardens Mercer Street Flitcroft Street Stacey Street New Compton Street St Giles Passage Charing Cross Road Shaftesbury Avenue High Holborn Long Acre