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. Connaught Street runs eastwards from the square towards the Edgware Road.
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:
- Clarendon Place, a broad-pavemented 156-metre approach road, and
- Connaught Street, which features high street services, coffee shops and restaurants, including Connaught Village.
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
- № 21 was the long-term home of a branch of the Bonham Carter family, including Sir Maurice Bonham-Carter and his wife Violet Bonham Carter, later Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury
- № 13 was the family home of architect Peter Dollar.
- № 8 was that of merchant, shipowner John Boulcott.