Yellow brick Georgian terraces from the 1760s to the 1820s, and the station archway Paddington relabelled as its own.
What Marylebone looks like
runs north from and Wimpole Street runs parallel to it from Wigmore Street, both in long terraces of yellow London stock brick. Most of the houses are two or three bays wide and three to five storeys over a basement, with the roof set behind a parapet and the sash windows shrinking floor by floor. Cast iron railings front an open basement area at every door, and stone steps lead up to a semicircular fanlight. The terraces date from the 1760s to the 1820s, and private consulting rooms occupy many of them.
Behind those streets the mews run as narrow lanes, many of them entered through a carriage arch. The buildings are two storeys of brick, some with timber carriage doors and others with metal up and over doors. About a dozen of the mews keep their granite setts, and Cavendish Mews North among them. Many of the rest have been resurfaced.
has shops under Portman Mansions, a run of red brick at its northern end built in the 1890s. Great Portland Street is late Victorian and Edwardian, four storeys over a basement in red brick and terracotta. Chiltern Court sits above the tube station on Baker Street, a Portland stone block of flats finished in 1929. Abbey House stands on the same street, also in Portland stone, with a carved lighthouse over its entrance.
is unusually wide, running north to the stuccoed semicircle of at Marylebone Road. stands off that road on Melcombe Place, its old ironwork entrance halls holding shops now rather than the way in.
Shot in Marylebone
Most of the filming here has happened at the station on Melcombe Place. The Beatles run in through its old ironwork entrance in A Hard Day's Night, after a chase along Boston Place outside. The film used the concourse and the platforms for both the Liverpool departure and the London arrival. The Day of the Triffids runs an express train into the buffer stops at platform 4. Paddington relabelled the station's stone archway as its own. The Conjuring 2 has the Warrens picked up by car outside, and its train interior is Mark 2 coaching stock in British Rail blue and grey. Steven Soderbergh took Black Bag to Mayha, a restaurant at 43 Chiltern Street, for a lunch scene.
The Bank Job, 2008
Played 1971
The Bank Job retells the September 1971 raid in which a gang tunnelled into the vault of the Lloyds Bank branch at the corner of Baker Street and Marylebone Road. The production used the rooftops of the offices at 136 Baker Street, on the corner beside The Globe, as the gang's lookout. The bank front seen in the film is a partial set built at Pinewood and extended with visual effects.
What Marylebone can double for
Merrion Square in Dublin, Ireland
The Georgian terraces on three sides of Merrion Square are brown brick over granite steps, three bays wide and four storeys above a basement, with radial fanlights over the doors and wrought iron railings round the open areas. Window heights diminish floor by floor in the same order, and stable lanes run behind the plots. Dublin doorcases are limestone with paired columns, so a wide frame either avoids the doorway or dresses it. Red pillar boxes and London street name signs have to come out. Try searching Georgian brick terraces now.
Rodney Street runs as a line of Georgian brick houses of three bays, with sash windows under stone dressings and iron railings round the basement areas at the doors. Private consulting rooms occupy some of them, the same use the Harley Street houses have. The brick is red rather than the yellow brown here, and the roofline steps up and down along the terrace. A frame held to one or two doorways travels better than a shot along the whole street. Try searching Georgian consulting rooms now.
Beacon Hill in Boston, Massachusetts
The Federal rowhouses on Beacon Hill are brick fronted with fanlit entrances and decorative ironwork, which is close to the doorway detail on these terraces. Most of them stand two and three storeys where the houses here stand three to five. Boston has brick sidewalks and gas lamps where these streets have York stone paving and granite kerbs. The ground climbs there and runs flat here, so a frame held on a doorway and its railings holds the comparison better than a view along the block. Try searching Federal brick rowhouses now.
