The Loose Bridle Wine Bar, St Christopher's Place, Westminster, looking south towards Barrett Street and Gee's Court. St Christopher's Place dates to the 1760s. Thomas Barratt of Brentford, a prosperous brick and tile maker, owned Great Conduit Field on which the street was built. In 1765, after Barrett's death, his partners – Richard Forster, a bricklayer, and John Crowther, a plasterer – built houses on the field and created Barrett’s Court, a narrow street. By the 1830s it had become a rundown slum. In 1869-70, housing reformer Octavia Hill along with Julia, Countess of Ducie, and Emma Brooke began purchasing properties and refurbishing or replacing them. In 1884 the street was renamed St Christopher’s Place, known for its second-hand furniture trade and later for antique shops. The Loose Bridle Wine Bar is on the right-hand side, a four-storey, early nineteenth-century building with slim pilastered columns on the ground floor. It is now a coffee bar. Adjacent is St Christopher's Buildings, built in 1877 by Octavia Hill, a five-storey residential block with small retailers in the ground-floor units. Further along, St Christopher's House, with Gothic-style windows, was built by Emma Brooke's brother, Liberal politician Somerset Beaumont. It is Grade II listed, listing number 1235527.