The first name of the street was Ranelagh Street which itself was renamed as Ebury Street before the northern part began to go under the separate name of Beeston Place.

The oldest roads in the area were what are now Lower Grosvenor Place, Hobart Place, Ebury Street, Beeston Place and Buckingham Palace Road, all of which were established by the mid 18th century, and may be before this. The Rocque map shows a path where Beeston Place would run.

The 1792 Horwood map delineates the line of King’s Row (Buckingham Palace Road). It also shows that Ranelagh Street had been developed, and this street provides the axis by which today’s Grosvenor Gardens were formed. Ranelagh Street, Arabella Row, Belgrave Place and Eaton Street surrounded a block, which was subdivided by Eaton Lane North. Towards the end of the 18th century, the distinctive triangular shape of the northern block of Grosvenor Gardens was emerging.

Thomas Cundy was both the architect and main builder of Ranelagh Street. He ended up owing several leasehold houses here and was employed by the Grosvenor Estate to make a building plan for their land in Mayfair. He died in 1825 but was succeeded by his son - also called Thomas Cundy. The younger Thomas would go on to transform Belgravia.

In Beeston Place is the Goring Hotel. Here, the Duchess of Cambridge (formerly Kate Middleton) spent the night before her wedding to Prince William in 2011.