Endell Street

A long tall narrow building on the west side is an 1840s-built public house, the Cross Keys, Covent Garden.

The land on which the southern part of Endell Street is built was originally owned by William Short, who leased it to Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox, in 1623–24.

Lennox House was built on the site which eventually passed to Sir John Brownlow who began to build from 1682.

[1] The street is believed to have been named after the Reverend James Endell Tyler, rector of St Giles in the Fields in the 1840s.

Located on the corner of Betterton Street and Endell Street, the polychromatic brick-and-stone Gothic Revival structure, cited as an early example of the style, was designed as a studio for the stained-glass firm Lavers and Barraud in 1859,[7] and is included, together with the attached cast-iron railings, on the National Heritage register.

The crow-step gable, facing Betterton Street, has a significant contemporary artwork by painter Brian Clarke, in the form of a three-light stained-glass window.

[17][18] The basement of No.81 was home from July 1934 to the Caravan Club, which advertised itself as "London's Greatest Bohemian Rendezvous said to be the most unconventional spot in town", code for being gay-friendly.

The club came to the attention of the police almost straight away and in August local residents complained "It's absolutely a sink of iniquity.

[21] In July 2024, a property developer proposed that a rainbow plaque be added to the Endell Street site, now known as The Sail Loft.