Neal Street (without an ‘e’) commemorates Thomas Neale, MP, the original developer of Seven Dials. Until 1877 it was called King Street or Cross Lane. The present numbering of the buildings was assigned in 1908. It marks the eastern boundary of Marshland Close and today defines part of the eastern edge of the Seven Dials Conservation Area.
In this section some of the scale and character, as well as several of the original, late-17th or early-18th century, three-storey houses survive.
The removal of traditional kerbs in Neal Street and introduction of trees in buildouts has significantly changed the historic character of the street
