Walking Jane Austen's London by Louise Allen

Author:Louise Allen [Allen, Louise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Walking Jane Austen’s London
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Cleveland Court off St James’s Place, location of Henry Austen’s bank premises before he moved to Albany.

On the corner of Park Place is Brooks’s, one of Byron’s clubs. A stronghold of the Whigs, it moved here in 1778 and was notorious for high-stakes gambling.

On the other corner of Park Place is Justerini and Brooks, wine merchants (established in 1749), and next door at No. 63 was Fenton’s Hotel, famous for its medicinal baths.

Further down, opposite the entrance to Blue Ball Yard, is Robert Lewis, the tobacconist, established in 1787. No. 64 was the site of the Cocoa Tree coffee house, later another of Byron’s haunts.

Turn right into St James’s Place. Halfway along on the left is Cleveland Court where Henry Austen’s bank was located from 1801 until he moved the offices to Albany in 1804.

Many of the dwellings in the Place date from the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century but Spencer House at the end is considered one of the most beautiful Georgian buildings in the capital. It was built in 1766 and partly remodelled in the 1780s by Henry Holland, the architect of Carlton House. The elegant interior is well worth visiting.

With your back to Spencer House, walk straight ahead and turn into a very narrow passage just after No. 23. This leads through into Green Park. As John Wallis, author of a Regency guidebook, puts it:

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