Paultons Square

Terrace housing in Paultons Square
A blue plaque commemorating writer and naturalist Gavin Maxwell at a house where he lived in Paultons Square, London, United Kingdom.

Paultons Square is a Georgian terraced garden square in Chelsea, London, SW3. It was built in 1836-40, on the site of a former market garden, land previously owned by Sir Thomas More and Sir John Danvers.[1] The square features a central lawned garden, enclosed by metal railings. The garden is private, and accessible by local residents only. The square's houses are grade II listed buildings.[2] The author Gavin Maxwell is a notable former resident of the square - he lived at number 9 from 1961-65 - and it is often visited by admirers of his work. The novelist and short-story writer Jean Rhys lived in Flat 22 in Paulton House in the square from 1936–38 and the winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, Samuel Beckett, lived at number 48 Paulton Square from 1933-34.

The garden is 0.3535 hectares (0.874 acres) in size and was redesigned for the third millennium in 2000. It is not open to the public.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Paultons Square.
  2. ↑ Nos. 1–26, Nos. 27–33, Nos. 34–56. British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
  3. ↑ "Paultons Square". London Gardens Online. Retrieved 30 January 2016.

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Coordinates: 51°29′04″N 0°10′26″W / 51.4845°N 0.1738°W / 51.4845; -0.1738

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