Hill Street, London

Along its course, only Audley Square House departs from townhouse-sized frontage, yet this shares in the street's predominant form of domestic architecture, Georgian neo-classical.

[26][27] Before the palace in Portman Square was built she had lived in Hill Street, Mayfair, her rooms in which are thus depicted by the last-named writer the date being 1773, when Mrs. Montagu was fifty-seven.

"If I had paper and time I could entertain you with the account of Mrs. M.'s Room of Cupidons, which was opened with an assembly for all the foreigners, the literati, and the macaronis of the present age.

How such a genius, at her age, and so circumstanced (Mr. M. had recently taken his upward flight), could think of painting the walls of her dressing-room with bowers of roses and jessamines entirely inhabited by little cupids in all their little wanton ways, is astonishing."

[28] In Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park, Henry and Mary Crawford's uncle is an admiral living in Hill Street.

[29] Sir Walter Scott's novel Waverley, in which the hero's father is a Whig politician who lives in Hill Street, was published at the same time.

At No.5, the Coach and Horses co-fronts Hays Mews. It dates to the 1740s when the street was laid out. It was then a coaching inn and is the oldest surviving public house in Mayfair . [ 1 ] The building is Grade II-listed . [ 2 ]
Hill Street marked in red on John Rocque's map of 1746
Elizabeth Montagu held literary parties in Hill Street.
A cast-iron bollard at the corner of Hill Street and Chesterfield Hill. There are four such bollards in Hill Street, all of them Grade II-listed. They are of an early 19th-century cannon design and are intended to protect pedestrians from large turning vehicles cutting the corner. The cast lettering, obscured by many layers of black paint, reads " St George's Hanover Square ". [ 34 ] [ 35 ]