Henrietta Place

Henrietta Place

Henrietta Place from Marylebone Lane
Former name(s)	Henrietta Street
Location	City of Westminster, Greater London, United Kingdom
Postal code	W1
Nearest tube station	Bond Street
West end	Marylebone Lane
East end	Cavendish Square
Other
Known for	Debenhams House of Fraser St Peter, Vere Street

Henrietta Place, originally known as Henrietta Street, is a street in Marylebone in the City of Westminster in central London that runs from Marylebone Lane in the east to Cavendish Square in the west. It is joined on the north side by Welbeck Street and Wimpole Street, and on the south side by Vere Street, Chapel Place, and Old Cavendish Street.

Henrietta Street, now Place, was named after Lady Henrietta Cavendish, the 18th century heiress to the Manor of Marylebone lands and the wife of Edward Harley after whom Harley Street was named. The street was laid out around 1729 when the area, which was previously rural, was urbanised using a grid plan.

During the nineteenth century the street fell out of favour and in the twentieth century parts of the western end were redeveloped when the Marshall & Snelgrove department store on the south side was redeveloped as Debenhams and the Welbeck Street car park built for the store on the north side.

On the north side of the street is the Welbeck Street car park and the The Royal Society of Medicine which has its entrance in Wimpole Street. Between them is Henrietta House which is owned by Lazari Investments and occupied by property firm CBRE Group since 2011 after Diageo moved out. It was designed by Christopher Haddon of the Building Design Partnership and incorporates at first floor level on the exterior a series of fifteen Portland stone sculptures by Keir Smith commissioned by the Public Art Development Trust to show the architectural history of Britain. The project was the winner of the Royal Society of Arts Art for Architecture award in 1990. At the Cavendish Square end on the north side is the Royal College of Nursing.