Garden squares of plane trees behind railings and brick terraces given over to offices and embassies, with the Savile Row shopfronts the Kingsman films made into a spy agency headquarters.
What Mayfair looks like
holds almost two and a half hectares behind railings, under old plane trees around the edge. The garden was rebuilt and reopened in July 2026, an oval lawn inside a new footpath, with woodland planting and two wetlands beyond it. Neo-Georgian blocks hold offices and flats on three sides. Eero Saarinen's modernist block of 1960 takes the west, a hotel since 2025. Only two of the original houses are left. is plainer inside its own railings, grass and paths under very large London plane trees. Grand terraced townhouses stand on its west side and a long office block on the east.
Savile Row runs parallel to Regent Street between Conduit Street and Vigo Street, crossed by Boyle Street and Clifford Street. Glass shop fronts and lightwells are cut into the ground floors of the old houses, and No. 14 keeps most of its original front. is at No. 11, and the former takes the corner at Boyle Street.
The red brick fronts on Mount Street and South Audley Street date from the 1880s and 1890s, with carved relief panels between the windows and luxury shops along the ground floors. Mews lanes run behind the main streets, two and three storeys of former stables and coach houses, now houses and offices. No Underground station stands inside the area and one bus route crosses it.
is two small squares of shops and pubs between Piccadilly and Curzon Street, about 120 metres end to end. holds a curved stone corner a few streets west at 5 Hamilton Place, with wrought iron balconies over the awning.
Shot in Mayfair
The Kingsman films used the Huntsman shop front at 11 Savile Row as a spy agency's headquarters, and the sequel blows it up. The King's Man, the 2021 prequel, closed the whole street for two days and dressed it as the 1900s. A Hard Day's Night shot two scenes at a Hamilton Place club, and Love Actually the wedding at the chapel on South Audley Street.
Kingsman: The Secret Service, 2014
Savile Row
Played the Kingsman agency headquarters
Matthew Vaughn shot the front of Huntsman & Sons at 11 Savile Row as the headquarters of the fictional Kingsman agency, and Huntsman supplied the production's suits. The 2017 sequel came back to the same shop front and blows the headquarters up. The tailoring rooms on screen were built on a studio lot, so the shop front is all that was shot here.
A Hard Day's Night, 1964
Les Ambassadeurs Club
The Beatles dance in the Garrison Room to 'I Wanna Be Your Man' and 'Don't Bother Me', and Wilfrid Brambell plays cards in the Le Cercle gaming room. Both were shot inside 5 Hamilton Place on 17 March and 17 April 1964.
Love Actually, 2003
The opening wedding between Peter and Juliet was shot at Grosvenor Chapel on South Audley Street. Its front is brick behind a columned porch, with a clock and a green spire above it.
What Mayfair can double for
Merrion Square in Dublin, Ireland
Merrion Square dates from 1762 and keeps Georgian redbrick townhouses on three of its four sides around a railed central garden, most of them offices rather than homes now. Fitzwilliam Square a few streets south is smaller and more intact, and its garden is still open only to keyholders. Little 18th century frontage here survives in an unbroken run, so a wide shot picks up Victorian rebuilding and twentieth century blocks of flats that a Dublin square does not have. Chesterfield Street is the exception, with 18th century properties on both sides. Try searching Georgian redbrick townhouses now.
Beacon Hill in Boston, Massachusetts
Louisburg Square on Beacon Hill puts brick Greek Revival houses of the 1830s and 1840s straight onto the pavement around a private grassy oval inside a wrought iron fence. Berkeley Square keeps grand terraced fronts on its west side behind cast iron railings, around a plain garden of grass and plane trees. Boston's houses are shorter and its brick sidewalks and gas lamps show in any wide frame, so keep to a single terrace and its railings rather than a view across the garden square. The plane trees inside these squares are far larger than anything on Louisburg Square. Try searching brick terrace garden square now.
Sheridan Circle in Washington, D.C.
Massachusetts Avenue around Sheridan Circle holds the Gilded Age mansions and townhouses that house most of Washington's diplomatic missions. The grand houses here hold embassies the same way, with flagpoles and plaques already at the door. The avenue is far wider there and its mansions stand apart behind setbacks and lawns, while the houses here meet the pavement in a continuous terrace. Frame tight on a doorway and its railings rather than along the street. Try searching embassies in townhouses now.
