Site details:
| Cornwall Gardens |
Kensington & Chelsea |
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Cornwall Gardens is an elongated garden square with three private communal garden enclosures. It was developed by Thomas and John Broadwood, whose family owned the land,and became famous as piano makers. The gardens have magnificent plane trees dating from 1870s and are overlooked by Italianate terraces probably designed by the Broadwood estate surveyor Thomas Cundy III. The central garden has the original arched cast-iron entrance gates but the perimeter railings were removed during WWII, and the gardens area bounded by privet hedges. |
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| Site location: |
Cornwall Gardens |
| Postcode: |
SW7 4AW |
| Type of site: |
Garden Square |
| Date(s): |
1862 |
| Designer(s): |
Thomas Cundy III |
| Listed structures: |
LBII: 6-16 consec., 17-44 consec., 55-82 consec., 83-93 consec. Cornwall Gardens, Cornwall House and Garden House and railings to east. |
| Borough: |
Kensington & Chelsea |
| Site ownership: |
private |
| Site management: |
Cornwall Gardens Residents Association |
| Open to public? |
Occasionally |
| Opening times: |
Has opened for OGSW. Otherwise private, for keyholders only |
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| Public transport: |
Tube: Gloucester Road (District, Circle). Bus: 49, 74 |
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The information shown above was correct at the time of the last update 01/08/2008
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