Dorset Square

Dorset Square is a garden square in Marylebone, London. All buildings fronting it are terraced houses and listed, in the mainstream category. It takes up the site of Lord's (MCC's) Old Cricket Ground, which lasted 23 years until the 1811 season. Internally it spans.

Approach ways

It is one 84-metre block north of Marylebone Road and lends its name to the roads on all four sides, in typical fashion — the east side forms a pause in the numbering and scope of Gloucester Place; the west does so as to Balcombe Street. The south side links:

to the west Melcombe Place which behind the square's largest house/building to the west fronts the ticket hall of Marylebone station and the Landmark Hotel.
to the east Melcombe Street which ends two main blocks away at Baker Street.

Dorset Square takes up Lord's Old Ground the closure of which at the end of 1810's season was brought about by a sought rent increase.

The buildings are or apart.
Dorset Square Hotel, created in 1985, can be found on the south side of the square, at 39-40 Dorset Square
All sides are Grade II listed buildings. The Embassy of El Salvador is at No. 8. No. 1 currently houses the London branch of Alliance Française but during WWII functioned as its international headquarters when the original in Paris was closed. A plaque by the front door commemorates the building's history as the site from which agents of the French Resistance were equipped for, and dispatched to, undercover missions in Occupied France.

In birth order: