Aldford Street is named after Aldford, a property on the Grosvenor family’s Cheshire estates.
It was formerly known as Chapel Street before 1886, as it led to the Grosvenor Chapel.
Building originally dated from 1730. Sir Richard Grosvenor agreed with Grosvenor Chapel builders - Benjamin Timbrell, Robert Scott, William Barlow and Robert Andrews - that in consideration of their ’hazard and expense’, he granted them additional land nearby at low ground rents.
They jointly received two blocks on the west side of South Audley Street opposite the chapel. Building continued westward during the next few years, the four partners’ holding being slightly enlarged in 1737.
