Earl's Court Square is an award-winning Victorian garden, laid out as part of the Edwardes Estate in the 1870s. Having fallen into disrepair after WW2, a Residents' Association bought the garden under the 1851 Kensington Improvement Act. Landscape gardener and resident Christopher Fair designed today's layout and it became a Conservation Area in the 1970s. A children’s play area was added in 1980. Charles Wood Landscape Design has tended the garden since 2012. Famous residents have included Royal Ballet founder Dame Ninette de Valois, choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton, actor Sir John Gielgud, Pink Floyd members, the National Poetry Society, the actor Alex Pravda and several current eminent residents.
Private communal gardens provided for residents and built in the 1880s. Features include a central gazebo, ping-pong table, children's play area and a beautiful variety of trees.
A mature late-Victorian garden with 29 varieties of tree, and borders enlivened with new shrubs and plants. The square was built between 1880 and 1886 in the Domestic Revival style.
Grade II* listed houses, representing the extreme point of late Victorian individualism, surround a communal garden laid out in simple, naturalistic style by leading Edwardian landscape designer Harold Peto.
