Henry William Portman developed the first square on 200 acres around 1780, and it was immediately popular as it neighboured buildings designed by Robert Adam and James ‘Athenian’ Stuart. First laid out as a wilderness, it was re-landscaped in the early 1900s, and today there is a private one hectare garden square shaded by magnificent plane trees; alongside there is a children’s play area and a tennis court. The secluded and peaceful garden won a Silver award at the London Gardens Society competition in 2018.
A fine example of late Georgian architecture and the only purely residential square left in Westminster, with a beautiful, tranquil, shady garden. Railings recently restored.
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 early 19th Century garden square laid out to a grand design between 1811 and 1821 on the Portman Estate, with plane trees and other flowering shrubs.
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.
