Conduit Street
{{Short description|Street in the City of Westminster, England}}
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| location = City of Westminster, London, England
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| junction = St. George Street, Savile Row
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Conduit Street is a street in Mayfair, London. It connects Bond Street to Regent Street.{{sfn|Weinreb|Hibbert|Keay|Keay|2008|p=204}}
History
The street was first developed in the early 18th century on the Conduit Mead Estate, which the Corporation of London had owned since the 15th century; it was a popular place for upper-class Londoners to socialise.{{sfn|Weinreb|Hibbert|Keay|Keay|2008|p=204}}Edward Walford, 'Hanover Square and neighbourhood', in Old and New London: Volume 4 (London, 1878), pp. 314-326. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol4/pp314-326 [accessed 27 October 2019]. Most properties have since been demolished and rebuilt, but a handful have survived.{{sfn|Weinreb|Hibbert|Keay|Keay|2008|p=204}}
The MP Charles James Fox was born on Conduit Street in 1749.{{sfn|Weinreb|Hibbert|Keay|Keay|2008|p=204}}
Properties
- No. 9 Conduit Street was built for the MP Robert Vyner in 1779.{{sfn|Weinreb|Hibbert|Keay|Keay|2008|p=204}} It was built by James Wyatt and is now Grade II* listed.{{NHLE|num=1219898|desc=9, Conduit Street W1|date=24 February 1958|accessdate=27 October 2019}} The building served as the headquarters of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1859 until 1934.{{Cite web|url=https://www.architecture.com/explore-architecture/inside-the-riba-collections/conduit-street-deeds|title=Conduit Street deeds|website=www.architecture.com}}
- No. 16 Conduit Street was a public house (The Coach & Horses) from the 1780s until at least 1910. The current building dates from 1900.{{Cite web|url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coach_and_Horses,_Conduit_Street,_Mayfair,_W1_(6871197024).jpg|title=This shop (currently a clothing store called Layers) is at an address listed as pub until at least 1910, maybe later, so it hasn't been a pub for a very long time. The building was erected in 1900.|first=Ewan Munro from London|last=UK|date=23 March 2012|via=Wikimedia Commons}}
- Nos. 19 and 20 are on the site of Warne's Hotel, destroyed by a fire on the afternoon of 29th January, 1809. It extended to the back premises, close to the gates of St George's Church, Hanover Square, which was thought to be under threat from the fire.{{Cite web|url=https://janeaustenslondon.com/tag/georgian-hotels/|title=Georgian hotels|website=Jane Austen's London}}
- Nos. 42 and 43 are listed early to mid 18th century terraced houses.{{Cite web|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1066975|title=42 AND 43, CONDUIT STREET W1, Non Civil Parish - 1066975 | Historic England|website=historicengland.org.uk}}
- No. 44 was the London office of the Oxford University Press Music Department in the 1950s.
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Category:Edwardian architecture in London
Category:Shopping streets in London
Category:Streets in the City of Westminster
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