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Cresswell Gardens

Cresswell Gardens is a short street between Old Brompton Road and Creswell Place.

It mainly consists of five-storey (plus basement) red-brick Victorian buildings although the south side has a recently built three-storey red-brick terrace.

Creswell Gardens was named after Creswell Lodge, a local country house when the area was farming land. The site was apparently destined for John Spicer, who died in 1883, because Robert Gunter II granted a lease to his solicitor son, G J Spicer who then commissioned the architect Maurice Hulbert to design the houses for Nos. 1-9 and 14-17, and used Matthews and Rogers to build them in 1884-5.

Nos. 10-12 were built in 1937 to designs by the architects Hoare and Wheeler.

 

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