Stratton Street
Names
- Stratton Street
- Stretton Street
- Stretton's Street
Street/Area/District
- Stratton Street
Maps & Views
- 1720 London (Strype): Stretton Street
- 1736 London (Moll & Bowles): Stretting Street
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Stretton Street
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Stretton Street
Descriptions
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
Stretton-street hath also but one Row of Buildings, and that fronts Berkeley House and Garden; which are very gentilely built, and well inhabited, having small Gardens behind them.
Beyond this Street there is a continued Row of Buildings, which runs Westward almost to Hide Park on the North Side, the South having the Park Wall. These Houses, for the generality, are Inns or publick Houses of Entertainment, except some few by the Bridge, where there is a Passage or Street called which leadeth to Tiburn Lane, by Hide Park, a Place but of ordinary Buildings.
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Stretton's street, Berkley street, Westminster. †
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Stretton-Street, Piccadilly,—about the middle of the N. side, and the first on the L. from the E. end of Paradise-row.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Streeton-St., Piccadilly, is the first turning westward of Berkeley-street.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Stratton Street, Piccadilly, west side of Devonshire House. Built circ. 1693,1 and so called after John, Baron Berkeley of Stratton, the hero of Stratton Fight, fought at Stratton in Cornwall during the Civil Wars under Charles I. This Lord Berkeley built Berkeley House in Piccadilly (on the site of Devonshire House); hence Berkeley Street and Berkeley Square. Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, the hero of Barossa, and Wellington's second in command in the Peninsula, lived at No. 12 in this street, and died here, December 18, 1843, in his ninety-sixth year. No. 1, on the left-hand side, is the residence of the Baroness Burdett Coutts. Here the Duchess of St. Alban's (Mrs. Coutts) gave her magnificent entertainments; and here she died in 1837. For two months before her death she lay in the great dining-room towards Piccadilly, without pain, but weak and tranquil. James Douglas, the author of Nenia Britannica, lived in this street. Thomas Campbell writes to Dr. Currie from No. 2, April 13, 1802.
1 Rate-books of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields.