| | Upper Brook Street: Introduction | British History Online |
 | | By 1734 almost all the houses east of Park Street had been built and occupied, but progress was much slower further west, only nine of the houses there being occupied by 1740, while those built on the shallow plots at the western extremity of the south side were not all completed and occupied until 1759. |
 | | The original house plots in the street varied considerably in size, having frontages ranging from fifteen to fifty-one feet; and there was even greater variation in their depth, those at or near the corners being in general shallow and having much smaller houses built upon them than in the main ranges of the street. |
 | | Brook Street, Grosvenor Street, Upper Grosvenor Street and Grosvenor Square) was to grant short renewals of varying lengths arranged so that the leases of groups or ranges of houses would all in due course expire at the same time, thereby permitting the simultaneous rebuilding of adjacent houses. |
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