Located in the London Borough of Camden, it is a residential road lined with Victorian era houses.
It runs roughly northeastwards from Regent's Park Road at the edge of Primrose Hill to Gloucester Avenue.
The street takes its name from the Fitzroy family who owned the estate in the area that was developed from 1840 onwards.
[3] The Irish writer William Butler Yeats lived in Fitzroy Road and is now commemorated with a blue plaque.
[4] Other notable residents of the street have included H. G. Wells, Jacquetta Hawkes, Arthur Rackham, Henry Wood, Martita Hunt and Lord Methuen.