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Sloane Avenue is a road in London. Sloane Avenue runs roughly north-west to south-east from
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 ...
in Kensington to a junction with Elystan Place and
Bray Place The Bray Place in Louisville, Kentucky refers to the early farmstead and home built in 1796 by Major Samuel E. Bray and his wife, Nancy Lyle Bray from Virginia. The was granted by Thomas Jefferson (through William Fleming) to Bray as paymen ...
, and its short southern continuation, Anderson Street, joins the
King's Road King's Road or Kings Road (or sometimes the King's Road, especially when it was the king's private road until 1830, or as a colloquialism by middle/upper class London residents), is a major street stretching through Chelsea, London, Chelsea ...
in Chelsea. From 1908, the road, hitherto known as Keppel Street was renamed and widened. Notable apartment buildings include
Sloane Avenue Mansions Sloane Avenue Mansions is a high-rise residential building in Sloane Avenue, Chelsea, London, England. It stands next to Nell Gwynn House, designed by the same architect. History At the beginning of the 20th century, the area comprised derelict h ...
and
Nell Gwynn House Nell Gwynn House is a ten-storey residential building in Sloane Avenue, Chelsea, London, designed in the Art Deco style by G. Kay Green. Completed in 1937, it stands next to the same architect's Sloane Avenue Mansions, built a few years earlier. ...
, both designed by
G. Kay Green George Kay Green (3 May 1877 – December 1939) was a Scottish architect whose work after 1918 was mostly in southern England. Life Born in May 1877,Giorgos Seferis Giorgos or George Seferis (; gr, Γιώργος Σεφέρης ), the pen name of Georgios Seferiades (Γεώργιος Σεφεριάδης; March 13 – September 20, 1971), was a Greek poet and diplomat. He was one of the most important G ...
(1900-1971), Greek poet-diplomat, commemorated with a
blue plaque A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom and elsewhere to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker. The term i ...


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{{Reflist Streets in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Streets in the City of Westminster