Dorset Square

It takes up the site of Lord's (MCC's) Old Cricket Ground, which lasted 23 years until the 1811 season.

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: Dorset Square takes up (1787-founded) Lord's Old Ground the closure of which at the end of 1810's season was brought about by a sought rent increase.

1 currently houses the London branch of Alliance Française but during WWII functioned as its international headquarters when the original in Paris was closed.

[4] 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.

Dorset Square
The immediate vicinity of Dorset Square.
A map showing the Dorset Square ward of St Marylebone Metropolitan Borough as it appeared in 1916.
Dodie Smith blue plaque , 18 Dorset Square
Laurence Gomme blue plaque , 24 Dorset Square