Cleveland Square is a private and gated

garden square A garden square is a type of communal garden in an urban area wholly or substantially surrounded by buildings; commonly, it continues to be applied to public and private parks formed after such a garden becomes accessible to the public at large. ...

in the predominantly classically conserved Bayswater district of the City of Westminster, north of Central London's

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. The housing is in tall, tree-shaded rows, stuccoed and with pillared porches, with some discreet infilling of other housing behind. Cleveland Square Ordnance Survey 1896

The square was built in the 1850s along with Cleveland Gardens and Cleveland Terrace. They are likely named after the speculator and development manager William Frederick Cleveland of

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who worked across the broader area of

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, particularly its formerly semi-independent farmstead (and reputed manor) of

Bayswater Bayswater is an area within the City of Westminster in West London. It is a built-up district with a population density of 17,500 per square kilometre, and is located between Kensington Gardens to the south, Paddington to the north-east, and ...

. The homes and manicured, landscaped communal gardens were built around 1855, and were designed for short-term rental and long leases by the upper echelons of international society. The small River Westbourne ran under the west end of the square. The most lavish use of space of the overall area was in Cleveland Square, where the north side was made to be the only one not separated by the quiet road from the gardens, and enjoyed a further small green across its road to the north. Houses on the other sides were leased between 1852 and 1854 to

Henry de Bruno Austin Henry de Bruno Austin (bapt. 17 January 1791 – 21 December 1869) was an English property developer in Victorian London, who planned large housing estates in Ealing and Lancaster Gate but went bankrupt before they could be fully realised. He wa ...

, a land-developer active in Paddington and later in outer suburbs.T F T Baker, Diane K Bolton and Patricia E C Croot, 'Paddington: Bayswater', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 9, Hampstead, Paddington, ed. C R Elrington (London, 1989), pp. 204-212. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol9/pp204-212 ccessed 16 January 2020

Notable residents

Sir Cusack Patrick Roney Sir Cusack Patrick Roney (baptised February 1809 – 30 September 1868) was an Irish civil servant who was a private secretary in the British Civil Service. He is most associated with the railway industry, being secretary to two railway companies ...

, managing director of the

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, died in Cleveland Square in 1868."Sir Cusack Patrick Roney"
''The Register, and Magazine of Biography, &c.'', January 1869, pp. 206-207. * Samuel Montagu * Lionel Rothschild *

George Tupou V George Tupou V ( Tongan: Siaosi Tupou, full name: Siaosi Tāufaʻāhau Manumataongo Tukuʻaho Tupou; 4 May 194818 March 2012) was the King of Tonga from the death of his father Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV in 2006 until his own death six years late ...

, King of

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, lived at 25 Cleveland Square.

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