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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