Hill Street, London

This article is about the street in Mayfair. For other Hill Streets, see Hill Street.

At No.5, the Coach and Horses co-fronts Hays Mews. It dates to the 1740s when the street was laid out. It was then a coaching inn and is the oldest surviving public house in Mayfair.[1] The building is Grade II-listed.[2]

Hill Street is a street in Mayfair, London, which runs south-west, then west, from Berkeley Square to Deanery Street, a short approach way from Park Lane. It was developed from farmland in the 18th century.[3] Travelling one block to the east and south sees a fall of about three metres, whereas in the other direction the land rises gradually across six main blocks to beyond the north of Marble Arch (see Hyde Park). Hill Street's homes gained fashionable status from the outset: grand townhouses seeing use, at first, as seasonal lettings (rentals) and/or longer-term London homes of nobility — later, of other wealthy capitalists as much. Twenty-two, approximately half of its town houses, are listed. Along its course, only Audley Square House departs from townhouse-sized frontage, yet this shares in the street's predominant form of domestic architecture, Georgian neo-classical. Hill Street's public house is the oldest surviving one in Mayfair.

  1. ^ Coach & Horses, London, Shepherd Neame
  2. ^ Historic England (1 December 1987). "Coach and Horses public house (1357097)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 October 2013.
  3. ^ White, Jerry (2013), A Great and Monstrous Thing: London in the eighteenth century, Harvard University Press, pp. 31, 107, ISBN 9780674076402