page_title: Dorset Square
section_title: Buildings
hierarchical_section_title: Dorset Square / Buildings
caption_attribution_description: English: Dorset Square, LondonThis is a photo of listed building number 1066897.
context_page_description: Dorset Square is a garden square in Marylebone, London. All buildings fronting it are terraced houses and listed, in the mainstream category. It takes up the site of Lord's Old Cricket Ground, which lasted 23 years until the 1811 season. Internally it spans 100,000 square feet.
context_section_description: The buildings are 250 feet (76 m) or 400 feet (120 m) apart (north-to-south, east-to-west).
  Dorset Square Hotel, created in 1985, can be found on the south side of the square, at 39-40 Dorset Square 
  All sides (east, №s1-8; north №s9-20; west №s21-28; south №s29-40) are Grade II listed buildings. The Embassy of El Salvador is at № 8. № 1 currently houses the London branch of Alliance Française but during WWII functioned as its international headquarters when the original in Paris was closed. A plaque by the front door commemorates the building's history as the site from which agents of the French Resistance were equipped for, and dispatched to, undercover missions in Occupied France.
caption: Laurence Gomme blue plaque, 24 Dorset Square
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