Cadogan Place is a street in

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, London. It is named after

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and runs parallel to the lower half of

Sloane Street Sloane Street is a major London street in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea which runs north to south, from Knightsbridge to Sloane Square, crossing Pont Street about halfway along. History Sloane Street takes its name from Sir H ...

. It gives its name to the extensive Cadogan Place Gardens, private communal gardens maintained for Cadogan residents. It is owned by

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. Cadogan Place is considered part of Prime Central London, an area of high property values that are popular with foreign buyers, particularly from the Middle East and China. The average value of a property in Cadogan Place was estimated at £5 million in 2020; with flats selling for an average of £3.1 million and terraced houses for £11.1 million. Nos. 21–27, 28–33, 34–69, and 70–90 Cadogan Place are listed Grade II on the

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as are the two bollards outside 70 Cadogan Place marked 'Hans Town 1819'. The of communal gardens, known as the North and South gardens, are also Grade II listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. The Carlton Tower Hotel is situated at the north end of Cadogan Place. It is bordered to the west by

and bisected by

Pont Street Pont Street is a fashionable street in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, traversing the areas of Knightsbridge and Belgravia. The street is not far from the Knightsbridge department store Harrods to its north-west. The street ...

to the north which runs east to west from Cadogan Place to Sloane Street. The eastern side of Cadogan Place is defined by its long stuccoed terraces built in the early 19th century. The 10

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'Belgravia Fatberg', a

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made up of grease, fat, and "unflushable"

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s was found under Cadogan Place in October 2020. It was removed by engineers from

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, who said that it weighed more than an African elephant. The northern garden was laid out by

Humphry Repton Humphry Repton (21 April 1752 – 24 March 1818) was the last great English landscape designer of the eighteenth century, often regarded as the successor to Capability Brown; he also sowed the seeds of the more intricate and eclectic styles of ...

in 1806. Repton laid out winding paths and created ridges and dips from excavated soil. An underground car park was created in the 1970s underneath the northern garden. The garden features rosebeds and shrubs and a summerhouse. A bronze sculpture of two figures by David Wynne is situated in the northern garden.

Literary references

Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian er ...

wrote of Cadogan Place in his 1839 novel ''

Nicholas Nickleby ''Nicholas Nickleby'' or ''The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby'' (or also ''The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings, and Complete Career of the ...

'' that it was a "slight bond" between the "aristocratic pavements" of

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and the "barbarism" of

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and the residents had the "airs and semblances of loftiest rank" while possessing "the realities of middle station". Cadogan Place is the home of Fanny and Robert Assingham in

Henry James Henry James ( – ) was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the ...

's late novel ''The Golden Bowl''.

Notable residents

*No. 18 was the childhood home of

Lord Alfred Douglas Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945), also known as Bosie Douglas, was an English poet and journalist, and a lover of Oscar Wilde. At Oxford he edited an undergraduate journal, ''The Spirit Lamp'', that carried a homoer ...

, the writer and poet, and the lover of

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. *No. 44 was the residence of the abolitionist

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for the last ten days of his life. He died here on 29 July 1833. His residence is marked by a

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commemorative

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placed in 1961. *No. 52 was the London birthplace, childhood and family home of

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(1894–1986), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. *No. 79 is the former home of

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and

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who provided Victorian London with a sensational divorce trial in 1886. *No. 30 was the residence of

Wynne Ellis Wynne Ellis (also Wynn Ellis) (1790–1875) was a wealthy British haberdasher, politician and art collector. Biography Ellis, son of Thomas Ellis, by Elizabeth Ordway of Barkway, Hertfordshire, was born at Oundle, Northamptonshire, in July 1790, ...

, haberdasher and art collector and benefactor to the

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. *

Dorothea Jordan Dorothea Jordan, née Bland (21 November 17615 July 1816), was an Anglo-Irish actress, as well as a courtesan. She was the long-time mistress of Prince William, Duke of Clarence, later William IV, and the mother of ten illegitimate children by ...

, actress and courtesan and the mistress and companion of the future King

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of the United Kingdom. Her residence is marked by a

blue plaque placed in 1975. *

Zachary Macaulay Zachary Macaulay ( gd, Sgàire MacAmhlaoibh; 2 May 1768 – 13 May 1838) was a Scottish statistician and abolitionist who was a founder of London University and of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, and a Governor of British Sierra Leone ...

and his wife

Selina Mills Selina Anne Mills (1767 – May 1831) was a school teacher who bought a girls school in Park Street, Bristol in December 1789 with her sisters Mary and Fanny, from Mary, Elizabeth, Sarah and Patty More, the sisters of Hannah More. Family life Mil ...

from 1818 to 1823 *Lieutenant-General Herbert Taylor, first Private Secretary to the Sovereign

Notes and references

{{Commons category, Cadogan Place Belgravia Cadogan Estate Communal gardens Grade II listed parks and gardens in London Streets in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Literary references

Notable residents

See also

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