Kean Street in Covent Garden

Kean Street in Covent Garden

Kean Street is a short street on the eastern side of Covent Garden, near the Aldwych and Drury Lane. It takes its name from the acting family associated with the London stage, a fitting connection in a district shaped by its theatres. The street is quiet compared with the market end of Covent Garden, and it functions largely as a link between the surrounding roads rather than a destination in its own right. Its buildings are a mix of larger blocks in brick and stone, several of which house offices and residential flats above ground-floor uses. The scale here is more sober than the market frontages, and the street carries less foot traffic, giving it a calmer character within a busy quarter. Its position close to Drury Lane and the theatres to the south ties it into theatreland, and it sits within easy reach of the eating places and stage doors that serve that trade. Kean Street repays attention as one of the smaller connecting routes that hold the eastern edge of Covent Garden together, away from the crowds drawn to the Piazza.