Belgravia

Belgravia is a large conservation area in the south-west of Westminster. It was first laid out in the 1820s by Thomas Cubitt and Thomas Cundy. Cubitt saw the possibilities of developing land to the west of Buckingham Palace as a fashionable residential area and leased the land from the Grosvenor Estate.

Today the area remains predominantly residential in character with a high degree of townscape uniformity. The grander areas are characterised by long stucco terraces of uniform mass, height and architectural treatment. Shorter entrance streets consist mainly of brick houses with half stucco. Variety in townscape can be found in the entrances to the terraces and the mews. To the south, centred on Bloomfield terrace, there is a small area of simple linked villa-type houses and small scale terraced houses of the late 18th and early 19th century.

Belgravia was first designated as a conservation area in 1968 and extended in 1977 and 1981.