Hyde Park Square
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{{Short description|Garden square in Central London}}
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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 (internally) 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. Connaught Street runs eastwards from the square towards the Edgware Road.
History and layout
The square was part of "Tyburnia"{{cite web |url=https://hydeparksquaregarden.com/category/history/ |title=Tyburnia – A History of the Paddington Estates (HYDE PARK SQUARE GARDEN, London, W2) |website=www.hydeparksquaregarden.com |date=20 October 2014 |accessdate=10 June 2017 |archive-date=31 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170731111045/https://hydeparksquaregarden.com/category/history/ |url-status=dead }} 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:
- Clarendon Place, a broad-pavemented 156-metre approach road, and
- Connaught Street, which features high street services, coffee shops and restaurants, including Connaught Village.
Numbering runs in one set for each side, anticlockwise, from south-east:
- 1, 2
- 10 (large), 13 to 20A, 21 (co-fronts and shared building with 43 & 43A Gloucester Square);
- 22 to 24
- 30 to 37 (37 being a shared building with 8 Clarendon Place), 38 to 47 (slightly below average in their frontage width).
The square measures, internally, {{convert|200|ft}} by {{convert|500|ft}}, 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
File:11-21 Hyde Park Square.jpg
№s 11–20A and 21 on the north side are grade II listed buildings, thus statutorily protected.{{National Heritage List for England|num=1231640|desc=11-21, HYDE PARK SQUARE W2|access-date=10 June 2017}} №s 30–37 (the west of the south side) is too, likewise, built around 1830–40, probably by George Ledwell Taylor.{{National Heritage List for England|num=1231641|desc=30-37, HYDE PARK SQUARE W2|access-date=10 June 2017}}
Residents
- № 13 was the family home of architect Peter Dollar (died 1943)."Births, Marriages, and Deaths", The Freeman's Journal and National Pres (Dublin, Ireland), 25 October 1899.
- № 8 was that of merchant, shipowner John Boulcott (died 1855).
References
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External links
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