King Street became Kingly Street in 1906.
King Street emerged from a footpath that connected Piccadilly to St Marylebone, passing through Six Acre Close.
The footpath marked the boundary between William Lowndes’s land to the east and the properties of Lewis Maidwell, Dr Tenison, and Thomas Beak to the west. William Lowndes himself described the footpath about thirty years later, mentioning its transformation into King Street: "I (who in the year 1667 came from Winslow, the place of my birth, to the City to abide there) can well remember this footpathway by which we used to walk to and from Marybone, which footpath, as I take it, was afterwards laid into King Street."
The houses on the east side of King Street, situated on the Lowndes estate, were constructed by Richard Tyler between 1688 and 1693. They were later rebuilt in the 1720s as part of the overall redevelopment of the Lowndes estate.
