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Wetherby Place

This road runs west of the north west corner of Hereford Square.

The north side consists of four and five-storey red-brick terraced houses with basement.

It is a short street which suddenly become Wetherby Gardens.

Wetherby Place was built on land belonging to the Day Estate. 

When Hereford Square had been developed, the Day estate still contained a number of large houses with grounds built in the 18th century.  In the 1880s these were pulled down to make way for the next wave of development.  In 1881 the Metropolitan Board of Works approved the layout of three new road which were to be Brechin Place, Rosary Gardens and Wetherby Place.

The firm of A.F. Taylor and S.A. Cumming, who operated from Earls Court, agreed to develop the site of Wetherby Place, where houses were going to be built on the north side only.  Their houses were completed between 1883 and 1885.

The estate surveyor at this time was Charles Moreing, now in his 80s.  The role was then taken over by William Collbran and it's possible he was the architect of many of the houses. 

 

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