Lord North Street in central London is a short street dating from 1722 of GeorgianBuilt 1722 The Buildings of England, London, 6, Westminster Pevsner, N./Bradley, S. (2003, Uxbridge, Penguin) terraced housing running between Smith Square and Great Peter Street in Westminster, the political heartland of British government. As such the properties have always commanded high fees and featured in many dramatic storylines.Lord North Street 1725-1996: a Westminster portrait Smedley, B (1996 London Hyde Park Antiquarian)
Past residents include the English man of letters Maurice Baring (at North Cottage, No 6, North Street),Letley, Emma. Maurice Baring: A Citizen of Europe, p. 138 socialite Sibyl Colefax, founder of the Colefax and Fowler fabrics and wallpaper company,‘Colefax, Sibyl Sophie Julia, Lady Colefax (1874–1950)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Davenport-Hines, R. (Oxford, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004) and Harold Wilson, twice Prime Minister who in November 1974 alleged that renegade MI5 operatives had broken into his home.
More recent residents include Jonathan AitkenPrison contemporaries visit LNS and Theresa Gorman.Multiple ownership in LNS
Origin of name The street was originally North Street (leading north from Smith Square). However, in 1936 Brendan Bracken, a resident and close confidant of Winston Churchill, had it renamed Lord North Street after Frederick North, Lord North, the Prime Minister from 1770 to 1782, as it sounded grander.
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