Lowndes Square is a residentialgarden square at the north-west end ofBelgravia,London,SW1. It is formed of archetypal grandterraces of light stucco houses, cream or white. The length of the central rectangular garden is parallel withSloane Street to the west; visible from the north-west corner is a corner of theHarvey Nichols store, beyond which isKnightsbridge tube station. Ecclesiastically (that is, in the Anglican Church), it remains in a northern projection of one of the parishes ofChelsea,[1] except its east side, which is in the very small parish of St Paul,Knightsbridge,[2] a division which is mirrored secularly by the boundaries of two London Boroughs (Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea).
The square has the highest percentage of highly anonymous (shell company) ownership in the UK, accounting for 40% of the houses.[3][better source needed]
Its houses are valued in excess of £10 million and so are mainly internally converted into apartments, some of which are multi-level. Locallylisted building status for most of the buildings means the façades and exterior structure above ground must remain little changed. Nos. 11 and 12 have higher, main statutory-level protection.[4]
As withBelgrave Square,George Basevi designed most of the houses. Lowndes Court, a classical apartment block, takes up the south side bar No. 34 (former Nos. 28–33); the north side (former No. 50 and possibly higher) is the Park Tower (Hotel), which fronts Knightsbridge, an arterial road on the other side.
ThePakistan High Commission takes up an interior conversion of Nos. 35–36.
On the other side of Sloane Street areWilton Crescent andBelgrave Square, notablegarden squares of London which are also designed by Basevi.
The private communal garden is 0.4009 hectares (0.991 acres) and containsplane trees and shrubs.[5]
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This was a setting in theEdward Frederic Benson novelThe Countess of Lowndes Square.
InAlan Hollinghurst's novelThe Line of Beauty, the Ouradi family live on the square.
Nicolas Roeg andDonald Cammell's 1970 filmPerformance, starringMick Jagger andJames Fox, used interiors ofLeonard Plugge's Lowndes Square house.
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