Norfolk Street in the Liberty of the Savoy (between Westminster and the City of London) ran from Strand in the north to the Westminster reach of the Thames. It then ran to a strand of public gardens after the Victoria Embankment was built (1865–70), what is now Temple Place. It was crossed only by Howard Street. It was demolished in the 1970s.
History
The Street was built on land once occupied by Arundel House and its gardens, the property of the Howard family, Dukes of Norfolk;Bebbington, Gillian. (1972) London street names. London: B.T. Batsford. p. 27. a dukedom (before which earldom) of medieval root. The head of the family plays a role in each coronation and each state opening of parliament. Off from its central crossroads are Arundel, Surrey and Howard Streets built after sprawling Arundel House was demolished by the earl of Arundel in 1678. Under Duke of Norfolk, Surrey and Arundel are subsidiary earldoms, plus Howard is used, the surname of the family.
A Norfolk Street tube station was planned in 1902, never built.
Norfolk Street and Howard Street were demolished in the 1970s to build Arundel Great Court, or Great Arundel Court, itself demolished in the mid 2010sWestminster Planning Applications: Great Arundel Court https://idoxpa.westminster.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=PR8DX5RP2NK00 – having been purchased in 2012.Land Securities sells Arundel Great Court. Land Securities, 29 March 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2017.The Strand deserves to be treated with much more respect by King’s College. Simon Jenkins, Evening Standard, 5 May 2015. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
Buildings The numbering scheme of latter decades is known.
№ 11 to 12: the south-west corner: Amberley House, office of the Ecclesiastical Association.Amberley House, 11–12 Norfolk Street, Westminster. Historic England. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
№ 10: Hastings House: hosted the Women Writers' Club from 1894. From here the early literary agent A. P. Watt (1834–1914) practised. By the 1900s the Middle Classes Defence Organization shared the building."Altercation over civil society: The bitter cry of the Edwardian middle classes" by Philip Waller in
Oswaldestre House
№ 33 to 35: Oswaldestre House: was associated with engineering and radio technology. The name is a subsidiary title of the Dukes of Norfolk. The Engineer newspaper (est. 1856) was based thereOswaldestre House, 33–35 Norfolk Street, Westminster, Greater London. Historic England. Retrieved 23 January 2017. and the building was also the registered address of a large number of consulting engineers, such as Henry Metcalfe Hobart. The Western Electric Company had an early radio station (2WP) on the third floor of the building in 1922.Archive: When radio went live; Chris Upton looks back 80 years to the first radio broadcast in Birmingham. thefreelibrary.com Retrieved 25 January 2017.
Former inhabitants Those having at least lived some time here include:Williams, George G. Assisted by Marian and Geoffrey Williams. (1973) Guide to literary London. London: Batsford. pp. 85–86. Peter the Great, ruler of Russia in 1698. William Penn (born 1644), founder of Pennsylvania. Washington Irving, author, at № 35 in 1805. Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet, at № 13 and 32 in 1816. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, at № 42 in 1816. Mary Mitford, bluestocking, at № 35 in the 1830s. Alfred Tennyson, poet, in 1842. Louisa Twining (born 1820), philanthropist.The Quiver, Annual Volume, 1903, page 463
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