The south east side is predominantly retail but includes the frontage for Paddington Underground (Bakerloo, Circle and District lines) station.

[4] Solar Pons, a pastiche of Sherlock Holmes created by August Derleth, had his home at 7B Praed Street.

to be two of the greatest American lines ever written: "I've walked this street in far too many towns./ The weather, briefly: in Salerno, rain."

Praed Street appeared in the political thriller novel House of Cards, and subsequently in its television adaptation, as an accommodation address set up by main protagonist Francis Urquhart as part of a plot to force the resignation of the sitting Prime Minister.

In The Dark Labyrinth by Lawrence Durrell, a character complains he 'could not be carried away by fairy tales of the Second Coming written in this Praed Street vein' (chapter three).