2021. “We have already seen the benefits of NearSt on Grosvenor’s London Estate and as part of our wider innovation agenda across the Grosvenor Group, we will look to roll this out to other retailers … The estate traces its history back to 1677, when the Manor of Ebury (500 acres of land north of the River Thames) was inherited by the Grosvenor family and today includes much of Mayfair and Belgravia. Contact Cobham Estate and Letting Agents to buy, sell, rent or let property. The Grosvenors’ Welsh lead mines leased to the London Lead Company and the income made possible further development of the Grosvenor Estate in London 1720s These three Grosvenors helped develop the Mayfair estate during the 1720s Many of Mayfair’s streets – with their happily homogeneous, red-brick town houses – reflect the taste and dedication of the first duke, one of English architecture’s great private patrons, but terracotta Mount Street was his greatest achievement. The Grosvenor Estate encompasses all the activities of the Grosvenor family. William of Normandy defeats Harold and becomes the first Norman King of England, Battle of Lincoln. The architects were Wimperis, Simpson & Guthrie. Their resourceful son Sir Richard Grosvenor began to develop Mayfair (taking its name from the annual May Fayre, held until the 19th century), and put the Five Fields to new use. Your personal property manager is never more than 10 minutes away. With 94,817 acres in Scotland, 300 in London, 5,500 in Cheshire and at least 600 in Lancashire, that’s some 101,217 acres of the Grosvenor Estate that we’ve located and mapped (more … Many properties and addresses are unique. He enlisted the help of surveyor Thomas Cundy and master builder Thomas Cubitt, and an ambitious building project began. Leonard Rome Guthrie had already designed the scheme to be built in four staggered blocks. Mount Street’s name comes from Mount Field, which included Oliver’s Mount, the remains of fortifications erected during the English civil war. As part of Grosvenor’s 20 year vision for its London Estate, for Mayfair and Belgravia to have the best digital connectivity – Grosvenor established a project in 2017 called Prime Fibre. Creation of new investment arm, Wheatsheaf Group. The Duke of Westminster’s property company has pledged to invest £90 million in refitting its historic London estate to cut carbon emissions.Grosvenor Britain & Ireland, which owns 300 acres … You have the Apollo and Victoria Palace theatres on your doorstep - home of London’s favourite musicals Wicked and Hamilton. However, his appointment as surveyor of the Grosvenor Estate in London gave him architectural control over much of Mayfair and Belgravia in the 1890s and 1900s, and the opportunity to design many buildings himself. ... - 3 Coldbath Square London … Matilda, widow of Henry V captures Stephen and reigns disastrously as Queen; she is driven out by a popular rising and Stephen restored, Signing of Magna Carta. His vision was for a lively, cosmopolitan place of residence and commerce, and the following centuries would see this vision expertly realised and the areas flourished into London’s most desirable addresses. Talbot supporters added to coat of arms, Eaton Park landscaped, attributed to Capability Brown, contractors William Emes and Thomas Leggett, Sir Richard Grosvenor created Earl Grosvenor, The Act of Union unites the kingdoms of England and Scotland and transfers the seat of Scottish Government to London, The Jacobite Rebellion begins in Scotland to overthrow George 1, The Duke of Cumberland crushes the Scottish Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden, The World's first cast-iron bridge is constructed over the River Severn at Coalbrookdale, Coal gas is used for lighting for the first time, Eaton Hall rebuilt, architect William Porden, Grosvenor House (formerly Gloucester House) altered to become the Grosvenors’ London home, Iron Bridge built at Eaton, attributed to Thomas Telford, contractor John Hazeldine, Robert Grosvenor (1767–1845) created First Marquess of Westminster, The arms of the City of Westminster were granted as a coat of augmentation when the Second Earl Grosvenor became First Marquess, Richard Grosvenor (1795–1869) Second Marquess of Westminster inherits title, Act of Union with Ireland unites Parliaments of England and Ireland, Battle of Trafalgar.