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Mount Street

A street of pink terracotta in Mayfair, rebuilt in the 1880s to one idea and kept that way.

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One long terracotta front. Photo by Ricardalovesmonuments, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Named after Oliver's Mount, an earthwork thrown up here in the Civil War. When the leases fell in, the Grosvenor estate pulled the Georgian street down and rebuilt it between 1885 and 1895 in red brick and pink terracotta, gabled and carved all over in the Queen Anne revival style then in fashion, which is why one side of the street reads as a single enormous building modelled in icing. It has never stopped being expensive: Scott's has sold fish here since 1968, the Connaught is round the corner, and the walled gardens behind are among the quietest places in Mayfair.

Where
Mount Street, Mayfair, W1K
Nearest station
Bond Street · 7 min walk

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