Egerton Crescent is a street in

Kensington Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in the West End of London, West of Central London. The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up b ...

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

, that was described in 2013 as "the most expensive street in Britain".

Location

The street runs roughly north to south in a curve, with both ends forming t-junctions on

Egerton Gardens Egerton Gardens is a street and communal garden, regionally termed a garden square, in South Kensington, London SW3. Location The street runs roughly south-west to north-east, off Brompton Road. Egerton Crescent, runs roughly off it, and Ege ...

, which in turn runs roughly north to south between Egerton Terrace and

Brompton Road Brompton Road is a street located in the southern part from Knightsbridge and in the eastern part from Brompton in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and partly the City of Westminster in London. It starts from Knightsbridge Und ...

History

The houses were designed by

George Basevi Elias George Basevi FRS (1 April 1794 – 16 October 1845) was a British architect who worked in both Neoclassical and Gothic Revival styles. A pupil of Sir John Soane, his designs included Belgrave Square in London, and the Fitzwilliam Muse ...

and built by

James Bonnin James Bonnin (about 1782 – 8 January 1850) was an England, English property developer who built more than three hundred houses in the Brompton, London, Brompton, Kensington, Knightsbridge and Chelsea, London, Chelsea areas of London. In 1846, ...

in the 1840s, when it was called Brompton Crescent, but was renamed Egerton Crescent in 1896 in honour of

Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater (21 May 1736 – 8 March 1803), known as Lord Francis Egerton until 1748, was a British nobleman from the Egerton family. He was the youngest son of the 1st Duke. He did not marry, and the dukedom expired ...

. In December 2013, it was named the "most expensive street in Britain", for the second successive year, with an average house price of £7.4 million. In December 2015, it was the second most expensive street in England, with an average property price of £7,550,000, according to research from

Lloyds Bank Lloyds Bank plc is a British retail banking, retail and commercial bank with branches across England and Wales. It has traditionally been considered one of the "Big Four (banking), Big Four" clearing house (finance), clearing banks. Lloyds B ...

, based on data from

HM Land Registry His Majesty's Land Registry is a non-ministerial department of His Majesty's Government, created in 1862 to register the ownership of land and property in England and Wales. It reports to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy ...

Notable residents

*Major-General William Frederick Cavaye (1845–1926), British military officer and politician, lived at no 40 *

David Frost Sir David Paradine Frost (7 April 1939 – 31 August 2013) was a British television host, journalist, comedian and writer. He rose to prominence during the satire boom in the United Kingdom when he was chosen to host the satirical programme ' ...

(1939–2013), British journalist and broadcaster, lived there in the late 1960s *

John Lehmann Rudolf John Frederick Lehmann (2 June 1907 – 7 April 1987) was an English poet and man of letters. He founded the periodicals ''New Writing'' and ''The London Magazine'', and the publishing house of John Lehmann Limited. Biography Born in ...

(1907–1987) was an English poet and man of letters, lived at no 31 from 1945 *

Lucas Malet Lucas Malet was the pseudonym of Mary St Leger Kingsley (4 June 1852 — 27 October 1931), a Victorian novelist. Of her novels, ''The Wages of Sin'' (1891) and ''The History of Sir Richard Calmady'' (1901) were especially popular. Malet scholar T ...

, pseudonym of Mary St Leger Kingsley (1852–1931), novelist, lived at no 27 in 1902 (at least) *

Tony Richardson Cecil Antonio "Tony" Richardson (5 June 1928 – 14 November 1991) was an English theatre and film director and producer whose career spanned five decades. In 1964, he won the Academy Award for Best Director for the film ''Tom Jones (1963 film ...

(1928–1991), English theatre and film director *

Jim Sharman James David Sharman (born 12 March 1945) is an Australian director and writer for film and stage with more than 70 productions to his credit. He is renowned in Australia for his work as a theatre director from the 1960s to the present, and is b ...

(born 1945), Australian theatre and film director * Michael White (1936–2016), British theatrical impresario and film producer, who bought the house from Richardson

References

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