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Coordinates: 51.5157°N 0.1557°W. 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.
Manchester Square, part of the Portman Estate. 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. The Portman Estate also has two rural estates in Buckinghamshire and Herefordshire.
17 de sept. de 2021 · By Survey of London, on 17 September 2021. This blog post was written for the Survey of London by Rory Lamb, a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, who researched the history of Montagu House for the Survey this summer, during a two-month work placement funded by the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities Doctoral ...
Montagu House, Portman Square (1872) Fue diseñada en 1760 —aunque no se construiría hasta 1777-84— por el destacado arquitecto James Stuart, 4 promotor de la arquitectura neoclásica en el Reino Unido, para Elizabeth Montagu, la esposa de Edward Montagu, nieto del embajador de Inglaterra a Portugal (1661-1662) y España (1666-1668), Edward Montagu.
Montagu House at 22 Portman Square was a historic London house. Occupying a site at the northwest corner of the square, in the angle between Gloucester Place and Upper Berkeley Street, it was built for Mrs Elizabeth Montagu, a wealthy widow and patroness of the arts, to the design of the neoclassicist architect James Stuart.
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. It marks the western end of Wigmore Street, which connects it to Cavendish Square to the east.
SITE DESCRIPTION. LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM AND SETTING. The two squares, Portman Square and Manchester Square, are laid out on level ground. They are located in the grid of streets within the south-east quarter of the Portman Estate, which occupies a large area of Marylebone in Central London.
