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22: 101: 94: 187:) lower floors and yellow- or brown- brick upper floors. Decoration is given by black railings, broad steps, arched doorways, panelled sash windows in recessed, quite heavy white frames, window boxes, and entrance-floor-matching under-painted balconies supporting small mediterranean-style trees, among other 179:
On the south side a fractionally recessed block takes up a small tapering block of buildings (№s 17-18) indented by a rear parking access. The square has an outlying set of numbering to the west alongside this, a very large building known as №s 19-22. The highest number is № 38, set
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in the British protective and recognising scheme, and were built in the 1820s. The main stonemason employed was Lancelot Edward Wood after whom is named neighbouring street Lancelot Place (originally Petwin Place).
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The square is open, at its north end, into a broad backstreet, Trevor Street, of similar house design and date, at an alike length as the square ending at a broad road then
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agreed to demolish his Powis House in 1811 to make way for the new development. The first houses were completed in 1820; most of them were completed by 1827.
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Crop of Christopher and John Greenwood's 8 inch-to-mile map published in 1827 from an 1830 republication (click to view all). In the far west is what became
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established the Trevor Chapel, later known as the Trevor Congregational Church on the corner of Lancelot Place. This closed in 1902 to be replaced by a
475: 250:'Trevor Square Area: Development of the Estate', in Survey of London: Volume 45, Knightsbridge, ed. John Greenacombe (London, 2000), pp. 97-102 176:. A corner house to an adjacent street, Trevor Place, Hill House reflects the Hill-Trevor land ownership before the square was built. 428: 398: 368: 338: 308: 284: 204: 529: 423: 393: 363: 333: 303: 279: 183:
The fronts of both very dominant (vast bulk of the rectangle) sides have with light-painted, quasi stone-clad in ashlar blocks (
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features. The gardens (at centre) are a private, communal, planted contrast to the skirting, backstreet road.
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lived at Number 15, before his disappearance and presumed death in 1914.
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but historically the parish near-equated to the detached part of
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The square was mainly detailed from 1810 by architect
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Index


garden square
Knightsbridge
London
William Fuller Pocock
mansard roofs
listed
Brompton Road
South Kensington
St Margaret's Westminster
Knightsbridge tube station



Rutland Gate
William Fuller Pocock
William Willmer Pocock
Philip Hardwick
Arthur Hill-Trevor, 3rd Viscount Dungannon
John Morison
Harrods
reversion
J. C. Humphreys
Hyde Park Barracks, London
Hyde Park
rusticated
classically graceful
listed Grade II
National Heritage List for England
Gustav Hamel

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