Queen Anne’s Gate has been home to a number of notable people, including a quantity of politicians given its proximity to the
Palace of Westminster. Some of the houses have
Blue plaques commemorating their residents. Many of the buildings are
listed, most at the highest grade, Grade I, sometimes for their architectural merit and sometimes for their historical significance. • No. 2 is of c. 1825 and is listed at Grade II. • No. 3 dates from the 1770s, although it was entirely rebuilt behind the existing facade in the early 21st century. Home of
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon,
Foreign Secretary at the outbreak of the
First World War, and earlier of the politicians
James Harris, 5th Earl of Malmesbury and
Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne. Nos. 1-3 are listed Grade II. • Nos. 5-13 are listed at Grade I. • Nos. 6-12 are listed at Grade II*. Of the mid-19th century, the block was designed by the Elmes,
father and
son.
Howard Colvin notes that No. 6 was designed for the
Parliamentary Agency Offices. • Nos. 9-13, the basement of this block housed a private
pub,
The Bride of Denmark, established by staff at the
Architectural Review which had offices at No. 9 above. The pub was fitted out with architectural salvage from London public houses destroyed in the
Second World War and was itself demolished in the 1990s, following
Robert Maxwell’s acquisition of the
Review. • No. 14 was home of the antiquarian
Charles Townley and later served as the office of the architectural practice
T. P. O’Sullivan & Partners. Nos. 14-22, 22a and 24 are listed Grade I. No. 14 was designed by
Samuel Wyatt and he may have been involved elsewhere in the street. • No. 15 is listed Grade I. It contains interiors by
Edwin Lutyens, undertaken for his friend and supporter
Edward Hudson. • No. 16, home of
John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher,
Admiral of the fleet and naval moderniser; and of the
abolitionist William Smith; where there are commemorative
blue plaques in both names. The restoration of the house won a
Georgian Group award. It is now owned by the businessman
Troels Holch Povlsen. • No. 17 is listed Grade I. Dating from the very early 18th century, the house, with its companion No. 19, form among the best remaining elements of the original
Queen Anne design of the street.
Edwin Lutyens, who also undertook work elsewhere in the street, lived there in the mid-1920s. • No. 19 was, between 1705 and 1718, in the 1920s, home to
William Paterson, a founder of the
Bank of England. In the 1920s, Sir
Aston Webb, an architect who undertook the refacing of
Buckingham Palace in 1913, lived at the house. • No. 20 was the birthplace of
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston. In the 1920s, it was home to
George Riddell, 1st Baron Riddell, owner of the
News of the World and confidant of
David Lloyd George. • No. 21, a house dating to 1704 that at one time was the home of Sir
Mansfield Smith-Cumming, the founder of
MI6. Its initial operations were based at No. 21. Reputedly, a tunnel led from it to MI6's headquarters at
54 Broadway nearby. Nos. 21 and 23 are listed Grade I. • No. 24, home to the politician
Sir George Shuckburgh-Evelyn from 1783 to 1788, and the judge
Sir Edward Vaughan Williams, from 1836 until his death in 1875. • No. 25 is listed Grade I. • No. 26 was home to
Sting and
Trudie Styler for approximately 20 years until 2016 when they sold the home and art collection. Nos. 26-32 inclusive are listed at Grade I. • No. 28, in the early 20th century, No. 28 was the home of
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, army reformer as
Secretary of State for War, and
Lord Chancellor, and subsequently of
Ronald and
Nancy Tree (later Lancaster). • No. 32, in the early 1920s this house was the home of the writer
Elizabeth Bowen who resided there with her great-aunt Edith (Lady Allendale). • No. 34, formerly the home of
Edward Tennant, 1st Baron Glenconner, and from 1962 to 2013, home to
St Stephen's Club, a private member's club. No. 34 was designed by
Detmar Blow and is listed Grade II. • No. 40 was home to
John Stuart Mill and his father
James Mill. It is Grade I listed. • Nos. 42, 44 and 46 are also all Grade I listed buildings. No.s 40, 42 and 44 were the headquarters of the
National Trust from 1945-1982. ==Old Queen Street==