Hyde Park Square is a residential, tree-planted,

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one block north of

Hyde Park Hyde Park may refer to: Places England * Hyde Park, London, a Royal Park in Central London * Hyde Park, Leeds, an inner-city area of north-west Leeds * Hyde Park, Sheffield, district of Sheffield * Hyde Park, in Hyde, Greater Manchester Austra ...

fronted by classical buildings, many of which are listed and marks a crossover of Lancaster Gate and

Connaught Village Connaught Village is a commercial and residential area just west of Marble Arch and just north of Hyde Park within the City of Westminster, London. As part of the Hyde Park Estate, it is owned by the Church Commissioners of England. Numerous b ...

neighbourhoods of

Bayswater Bayswater is an area within the City of Westminster in West London. It is a built-up district with a population density of 17,500 per square kilometre, and is located between Kensington Gardens to the south, Paddington to the north-east, and ...

, London. It measures (internally) 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.

History and layout

The square was part of "

Tyburnia Tyburnia, a part of Paddington in London, originally developed following an 1824 masterplan drawn up by Samuel Pepys Cockerell (1753-1827) to redevelop the historic lands of the Bishop of London, known as the Tyburn Estate, into a residential area ...

" planned in 1827 by Samuel Pepys Cockerell for the then semi-rural prime holding of the

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controlled by the

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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

. Numbering runs in one set for each side, anticlockwise, from south-east: *1, 2 *10 (large), 13 to 20A, 21 (co-fronts and shared building with 43 & 43A Gloucester Square); *22 to 24 *30 to 37 (37 being a shared building with 8 Clarendon Place), 38 to 47 (slightly below average in their frontage width). 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

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, thus statutorily protected. №s 30–37 (the west of the south side) is too, likewise, built around 1830–40, probably by

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Residents

*№ 13 was the family home of architect

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(died 1943)."Births, Marriages, and Deaths", ''The Freeman's Journal and National Pres'' (Dublin, Ireland), 25 October 1899. *№ 8 was that of merchant, shipowner John Boulcott (died 1855).

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