Brook Street, London

Most of it is leasehold, paying ground rent to and seeking lease renewals from the reversioner, that since before 1800, has been the Grosvenor Estate.

Some of them were very ornate, finely stuccoed and tall-ceilinged, designed by well known architects for wealthy tenants, especially near Grosvenor Square, others exposed good quality brickwork or bore fewer expensive window openings and embellishments.

The baroque chamber music ensemble The Brook Street Band takes its name from No.

The French restaurant Le Gavroche was housed on the primary floors of No.43 Upper Brook Street, before its closure in January 2024.

31, in 1858, from which they directed commercial networks, exposing land-holdings across the eastern Mediterranean to development capital of European markets (of joint-stock equity and of credit).

Westward view from the east end of Brook Street, close to Hanover Square.
Houses of Jimi Hendrix (No. 23, left) and George Frideric Handel (No. 25), both marked with English Heritage blue plaques