Decorating Chiltern Street

Chiltern Street is a lively and fashionable street running north from George Street through the heart of Marylebone Village, lined with handsome late-Victorian and Edwardian red-brick buildings that have been home to independent boutiques, restaurants and creative offices since the area's renaissance in the early 2000s. The street was originally developed in the late nineteenth century with a mix of mansion flats, commercial terraces and purpose-built residential buildings that give it an architectural variety unusual for this part of W1. It sits within the Portman Estate's landholding and its consistent red-brick palette creates a warm, coherent streetscape.

Chiltern Street's red and buff brick facades are generally left unpainted but the prominent painted render sections, window surrounds and commercial frontages require regular redecoration with weather-resistant masonry coatings; interior works in the mansion flats often involve complex multi-room schemes with period-sympathetic finishes.