13 Mansfield Street in 2015, home to architects John Loughborough Pearson, and Sir Edwin Lutyens

Mansfield Street is a street in the Marylebone district of central London.

It runs roughly north to south from New Cavendish Street to Queen Anne Street. About halfway, there are t-junctions with Duchess Street, off to the east, and Mansfield Mews, off to the west.

5-13 and 16–22 are all grade II* listed.[1][2] They were designed by Robert and James Adam, and built in 1770–75.[2]

Notable people

No. 13 was the home of the architect John Loughborough Pearson, and the home and office of architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, from 1919 to his death in 1944.[2]

No. 18 was the birthplace of the biochemist Rosalind Pitt-Rivers in 1907 (as Rosalind Venetia Henley).[3]

References

  1. ^ Historic England. "5-13, MANSFIELD STREET W1 (1273679)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  2. ^ a b c Historic England. "82, NEW CAVENDISH STREET W1, 16-22, MANSFIELD STREET W1 (1239532)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  3. ^ "Rivers, Rosalind Venetia Lane Fox Pitt- (1907–1990)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/57570. Retrieved 24 January 2021. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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