Bryanston Square is an early 19th century garden square built on the Portman Estate between 1811 and 1821. The east and west side properties feature grand stuccoed fronts and columns, with pediments at each corner and in the centre (the latter now lost). The garden, for residents of the surrounding houses, features magnificent old London plane trees among other flowering trees. Planting includes rhododendron, azalea, camellia, weigela, dogwood, viburnum, mahonia and hydrangea. A memorial drinking fountain was erected in 1863 at the south end, and there is an early 19th Century cast-iron water pump in the form of a Doric column at the north end.
A beautiful Georgian square with a fine collection of trees, shrubs and plants, first laid out in 1776-88. A major ongoing replanting programme began in 2006.
An elegant garden square surrounded by stucco-fronted houses dating from 1860. Moods range from more formal planting to naturalistic sections. Many unusual shrubs, trees and herbaceous perennials.
Second largest garden in the Hyde Park Estate, surrounded by an eclectic mix of original Italianate white stucco townhouses, and more recent developments by 20th Century modernist architects.
