Hereford Square
Hereford Square is a garden square in South Kensington, London SW7. It lies to the west of Gloucester Road, which forms the east side of the square. Wetherby Place is the western continuation, running off the north-west corner of the square.
10–23 and 27–35 Hereford Square have been listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England since November 1984.
The private communal gardens in the centre of Hereford Square are in size.
The garden was used as a baseball field during World War II by American soldiers.
History
Hereford Square was built by the architect Thomas Holmes from 1845 to 1850.The directly bomb struck houses from World War II have been rebuilt to imitate their original style recently after being yellow brick buildings for over 50 years. However, 1-5 are still concrete boxes. The houses all follow a relatively similar design with landings, many floors and an underground storage shed also used as a plant room or server room as well as a patio at the back.
Notable buildings and residents
- George Crichton Wells, dermatologist
- George Borrow, lived at No. 22.
- Frederick William Hulme, landscape painter and illustrator, lived at No. 4, according to the 1851 census.
- John Arrowsmith, cartographer, lived at No. 35 from 1861 to 1873.
- Robert Nandor Berki, political scientist, lived at No. 7 in the late 1950s.
- William Henry Brookfield, clergyman, died at No. 16 in 1874.
- H. O. Arnold-Forster, writer and politician, died at No. 27 in 1909.
The writer and social activist Frances Power Cobbe lived with her partner, the sculptor Mary Lloyd, at No. 26 from 1862 to 1884.