Alfred Place was built in 1806 by a Marylebone stonemason called John Waddilove who named it after his son Alfred.
Alfred Place was proposed originally in 1801 by George Dance the Younger, surveyor for the City of London Corporation as an area of large town houses for the upper end of the housing market.
Dance experimented with the use of the crescent form - the buildings are now lost but the street pattern survives.
Meanwhile, Alfred Waddilove was still collecting profits from the enterprise many years later.