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The Portman Estate, covering 110 acres of Marylebone in London’s West End, was founded in 1532 when the land was first leased to Sir William Portman. [1] The Portman Estate also has two rural estates in Buckinghamshire and Herefordshire. [2] In addition to its core landlord operation, The Portman Estate runs The Portman Foundation, a ...
Portman Square is a garden square in Marylebone, central London, surrounded by townhouses. It was specifically for private housing let on long leases having a ground rent by the Portman Estate , which owns the private communal gardens.
Portman Gate: land formerly owned by the Portman estate [10] yes Ranston Street: for the Baker family, assistants of local landowners the Portmans, who owned land in Ranston, Dorset [13] [9] yes Rossmore Close and Rossmore Road: this land was formerly owned by the Portman estate; they owned a property called Rossmore [75] [10] yes St John's ...
Marylebone was an Ancient Parish formed to serve the manors ... Bulstrode Street, small and charming, is named after a Portman family estate in Buckinghamshire ...
Terraced town house. c.1810–11, by J.T. Parkinson as part of his Montagu-Bryanston Square development for the Portman Estate. Stock brick with channelled stucco ground floor; concealed slate roof. 5 storeys and basement. 3 windows wide. Semicircular arched doorway to left with panelled door, fluted jambs and patterned fanlight.
Located in the City of Westminster, it runs north from Portman Square across the Marylebone Road eventually merging into Park Road. It is parallel to Baker Street to the east and forms part of the A41 road from nearby Marble Arch. The Portman Estate was developed into grids of streets for affluent residential housing from the mid-eighteenth ...
The street is one of those in the Portman Estate area with classical names, such as Cato Street, Homer Row, and Virgil Place. [1] According to Gillian Bebbington, these names were inspired by Edward Homer who was a friend of John Simon Harcourt, owner of the land on which the streets were built.
Joseph T. Parkinson designed and built the houses in Montagu Square as part of the Portman Estate, between 1810 and 1815. [2] It was named after the Yorkshire-born Elizabeth Montagu: [3] a social reformer, patron of the arts, salonist, literary critic, and writer. [4]