Hyde Park Place

Nos. 1 to 3 Hyde Park Place are a group of terraced town houses dating from approximately 1837 to 1840, likely designed by George Ledwell Taylor. They are built of stucco with slate roofs. The houses are four storeys high, plus a basement and dormered mansards, and each has a front three windows wide. No. 1 has an entrance on its return to Stanhope Place, while Nos. 2 and 3 have entrances to the right, each with a projecting fluted Greek Doric porch. The recessed sash windows are set in architrave surrounds with cornices and pediments on the first floor, and architraves only on the second floor. An entablature runs above the second floor. No. 3 has a later addition of an attic storey. The parapets have copings; the return to Stanhope Place on No. 1 has a balustraded coping. The front is protected by cast iron area railings with spear heads. The chimneys are corniced and of stucco construction. These houses were part of the Tyburnia development, originally planned by S.P. Cockerell in 1827 for the Bishop of London’s Estate (Church Commissioners), but the layout was modified by Cockerell’s successor, G Gutch.