Hyde Park Square


Hyde Park Square is a residential, tree-planted, garden square one block north of Hyde Park fronted by classical buildings, many of which are listed and marks a crossover of Lancaster Gate and Connaught Village neighbourhoods of Bayswater, London. It measures 200 by 500 feet, of which the bulk is the private communal garden - the rest is street-lit, pavemented streets with low railings in front of the houses.

History and layout

The square was part of "Tyburnia" planned in 1827 by Samuel Pepys Cockerell for the then semi-rural prime holding of the diocese controlled by the Bishop of London but was laid out to a modified plan by his successor George Gutch.
Aside from an approach street or road at its four corners it marks the end of:
Numbering runs in one set for each side, anticlockwise, from south-east:
The square measures, internally, by, of which the bulk is the private communal garden - the rest is street-lit, pavemented streets with low railings in front of the houses.

Buildings

№s 11–20A and 21 on the north side are grade II listed buildings, thus statutorily protected. №s 30–37 is too, likewise, built around 1830–40, probably by George Ledwell Taylor.

Residents