Grosvenor Gardens (Upper and Lower)

The dramatic architecture you see here is a distinct departure from the typical residential style of Belgravia. These grand, tall terraces were designed by architect Thomas Cundy the Third between eighteen sixty-seven and eighteen seventy-one. He purposefully gave the buildings a French Renaissance flair, complete with elaborate slate pavilion roofs that were meant to evoke the feeling of grand Parisian boulevards rather than the traditional English squares found elsewhere in the neighborhood. This was a deliberate attempt to create a sense of monumental scale on what was once marshy, undeveloped land squeezed between the long-lost Tyburn and Westbourne rivers.