Bateman's Buildings

Bateman's Buildings is a narrow passage running between Soho Square and Bateman Street, with a row of small houses down its eastern side. It stands on the site of Monmouth House, the mansion built in the early 1680s for James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, the illegitimate son of Charles II. The house later passed to Sir James Bateman, Lord Mayor of London, and was demolished in 1773, when the long narrow court replaced it.

The epidemiologist John Snow lodged at number 11 in 1836 to 1838, before his work on cholera. The passage now serves the backs of buildings on Dean Street and Soho Square.