Chesterfield Street
{{Short description|Street in Mayfair, London}}
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File:Maugham - 6 Chesterfield Street, Mayfair, W1J 5JQ.JPG
Chesterfield Street is a "virtually intact" Georgian street (except for No. 6, which is a reconstruction){{cite book|author=Andrew Duncan|title=Walking London: Thirty Original Walks in and Around London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YDAqXNNpGLsC&pg=PA78|accessdate=4 October 2017|year=2008|publisher=New Holland Publishers|isbn=978-1-84773-054-1|page=78}} in London's Mayfair district. Several of the buildings are Grade II listed on the National Heritage List for England.https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/results?q=chesterfield street&county=City of Westminster&parish=-1&searchtype=nhlesearch&searchResultsPerPage=20
Location
History
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It is named after Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, and bounded the grounds to the east of what was Chesterfield House.
Notable buildings
The gentleman's club White's was founded at No. 4 in 1693; in 1778 it moved to 37–38 St James's Street.
The High Commission of The Bahamas is at No. 10.
The individual listed buildings on Chesterfield Street are 1,{{NHLE|num=1066267|desc=1 Chesterfield Street|access-date=5 October 2017|mode=cs2}}
2,{{NHLE|num=1066268|desc=2 Chesterfield Street|access-date=5 October 2017|mode=cs2}} 10,{{NHLE|num=1066269|desc=10 Chesterfield Street|access-date=5 October 2017|mode=cs2}} 11,{{NHLE|num=1291575|desc=11 Chesterfield Street|access-date=5 October 2017|mode=cs2}} 14,{{NHLE|num=1219227|desc=14 Chesterfield Street|access-date=5 October 2017|mode=cs2}} and 15.{{NHLE|num=1066271|desc=15 Chesterfield Street|access-date=5 October 2017|mode=cs2}} 8 and 9 and 12 and 13 Chesterfield Street are listed in pairs.{{NHLE|num=1291570|desc=8 and 9 Chesterfield Street|access-date=5 October 2017|mode=cs2}}{{NHLE|num=1066270|desc=12 and 13 Chesterfield Street|access-date=5 October 2017|mode=cs2}}
Notable residents
Notable residents have included Beau Brummell, the Earl of Dundonald and the Indian businessman Neeraj Kanwar.{{cite web|url=http://courtnewsuk.co.uk/high-end-burglars-court/|title=High-end 'burglars' in court - Court News UK|author=|date=14 July 2016|website=courtnewsuk.co.uk|accessdate=4 October 2017}}{{cite news|title=Apollo Tyres turns its back on China|url=https://www.ft.com/content/b29a93f6-8e73-11e3-98c6-00144feab7de|accessdate=4 October 2017|work=Financial Times|date=6 February 2014}}
Sir Rodney Mundy, Admiral of the Fleet died at his home in Chesterfield Street in 1884.
- No. 1, Lord Dudley
- No. 1, Herbert Jenner-Fust, judge, died there in 1852.
- No. 3, Caroline Norton, social reformer and author
- No. 4, Beau Brummell{{cite web|url=http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/brummell-beau-1778-1840|title=BRUMMELL, Beau (1778-1840) - English Heritage|author=|date=|website=www.english-heritage.org.uk|accessdate=4 October 2017}}
- No. 4, Anthony Eden, prime minister, lived there 1955–57.{{cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/uk-travel/england/london-travel/a-house-with-the-new-status-symbol-the-double-blue-lpbvdw8xsd0|title=A house with the new status symbol — 'the double blue'|first=Jessie|last=Hewitson|date=4 October 2017|publisher=|access-date=4 October 2017|via=www.thetimes.co.uk}}
- No. 4, The Duke of Devonshire lived there in the late 1990s.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4722575/The-duke-of-hazard.html|title=The duke of hazard|first=Graham|last=Turner|date=30 March 2001|publisher=|accessdate=4 October 2017|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}
- No. 6, W. Somerset Maugham, novelist and playwright, lived there 1911–19.
- No. 7, Ivy Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland
- No. 8, Francis Douglas, Viscount Drumlanrig, eldest son of John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, was born there.{{cite book|title=The Complete Peerage, Volume X|year=1945|publisher=St Catherine's Press|page=707}}
- No. 11, Sir Robert Adair, diplomat
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Category:Streets in the City of Westminster
Category:Georgian architecture in the City of Westminster
Category:Grade II listed buildings in the City of Westminster