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Great Queen Street runs along the eastern side of Covent Garden, connecting Long Acre with Kingsway and the edge of Holborn. It is a broad and dignified street, laid out early and long regarded as one of the more architecturally considered streets in the area. Its dominant landmark is Freemasons' Hall, the large headquarters of the United Grand Lodge of England, whose imposing early twentieth-century building occupies much of the street's southern side and gives it a strong civic presence. The street carries a mixture of offices, hospitality and retail, with a number of long-established restaurants and pubs among its frontages. Its width and the scale of its buildings distinguish it from the narrower market lanes to the west. Great Queen Street sits on the route between the shopping and theatre core of Covent Garden and the legal and commercial districts around Holborn and Lincoln's Inn Fields, making it a busy through-street on foot and by vehicle. The combination of the Freemasons' Hall, its dining establishments and its formal architecture gives Great Queen Street a distinct and substantial character within the district.
