This symmetrical 1840s terrace is visually the northern projection of Monmouth Street, northwards of the junction with Neal Street. Historically, before the creation of Shaftesbury Avenue, this terrace fronted the eastern side of Broad Street, the wide but short urban space marking the junctions of the long lost Dudley Street and Great St Andrew Street (now Monmouth Street) north of The Dials.
Shaftesbury Avenue, named after the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, runs in a north-easterly direction from Piccadilly Circus to New Oxford Street, crossing Charing Cross Road at Cambridge Circus. It was built between 1877 and 1886 by the architect George Vulliamy and the engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette as a combined work of traffic improvement and slum clearance which swallowed up existing streets and alleyways.
