Landmarks on Mount Street

Shops on Mount Street come and go. These are the places with the longest ties to the street. Checked October 2026.

The Connaught and Silence

At the eastern end, Mount Street curves into Carlos Place, which was called Charles Street until the first Duke of Westminster's redevelopment. In 1815 Francis Grillon opened a hotel on Charles Street, and that hotel is the ancestor of The Connaught. It was rebuilt in the 1890s as the Coburg and renamed The Connaught in 1917, during the First World War, after Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught.

Outside the hotel, where Mount Street meets Carlos Place, is Silence, a water feature by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando. It opened in July 2011, commissioned by Grosvenor and The Connaught. Water runs over the sides of a shallow stone ellipse planted with two trees. Every fifteen minutes, hidden atomisers release a mist around the trees for fifteen seconds.

Scott's, 20 Mount Street

Scott's began in 1851 as an oyster warehouse run by a fishmonger, John Scott. It spent more than a century on Coventry Street before moving to Mount Street in 1967. Ian Fleming was a regular. The restaurant was refurbished and reopened in 2006.

Purdey, Audley House

The gunmakers James Purdey & Sons, founded in 1814, have been at Audley House since 1 January 1883. The building stands at 57–58 South Audley Street, with its main entrance on the corner of Mount Street. William Lambert designed it, and in 1892 Purdey took in No. 84 Mount Street next door, again to Lambert's design.

The Audley

The Audley stands on the corner of Mount Street and South Audley Street. Thomas Verity designed it for Watney's brewery, and it was built in 1888–89 as part of the estate's rebuild, in red brick and terracotta with a domed corner turret. The block is Grade II listed. Grosvenor has since refurbished it.

The terracotta ranges

Much of the street is itself the landmark. Look up at Nos. 104–108 by Ernest George and Peto, Nos. 125–129 by W. H. Powell, and the long range at Nos. 87–102 by Albert J. Bolton. All were built between 1886 and 1895 in brick and Doulton terracotta. The history page has more on the rebuild.

Mount Street Gardens and Farm Street Church

A short walk through from Mount Street or South Audley Street brings you to Mount Street Gardens, a former burial ground laid out as a public garden in 1889. Farm Street Church, built in 1844–49 with a high altar by A. W. N. Pugin, backs onto it.

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