Glassmaking or Salt Petre manufacturing took place here from the 1670s.
Glasshouse Street is noted on Ogilby and Morgan’s map of 1681–2 as extending westward from the south end of Warwick Street towards the northern boundary of the garden of Burlington House. By 1720, it reached as far west as Bond Street. Rocque’s map of 1746 and Horwood’s of 1792 indicate the western part between Savile Row and Bond Street as Vigo Lane. In time, this section became Burlington Gardens, and with the creation of Regent Street in 1816–19, the segment between Savile Row and Regent Street became Vigo Lane.
In 1863, both Marylebone Street and Tichborne Street were renamed as part of Glasshouse Street, encompassing the modern Glasshouse Street, with only a small portion retaining its seventeenth-century name.
