Gloucester Terrace is a street in

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in the vicinity of

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and

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. Located in the

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, it runs northwards from Lancaster Terrace near to

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and Hyde Park before curving round to meet Porchester Square around Westbourne. The southern section is close to the border between

Tyburnia Tyburnia is an area in Paddington, London, originally developed following an 1824 masterplan drawn up by Samuel Pepys Cockerell (1753–1827) to redevelop the historic lands of the Bishop of London, known as the Tyburn Estate, into a residential ...

and Bayswater. It intersects with

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, Chilworth Street, Cleveland Terrace, Bishop's Bridge Road and

Orsett Terrace Orsett Terrace, originally known as Orsett Place, is a street in the Westbourne district of the City of Westminster, in London. It runs roughly east–west between Porchester Terrace in the west and the junction of Westbourne Bridge and Westbour ...

. Its northern section is close to the

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and Westway.

Westbourne Terrace Westbourne Terrace is a street in the Paddington district of the City of Westminster in west London. The street runs between Westbourne Bridge in the north and the junction of Westbourne Crescent and Sussex Gardens in the south and was develo ...

runs directly parallel to the east. The street was developed in the early

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, with white

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terraces that are characteristic of the wider area. The plans for the area had been laid out in 1827 by

George Gutch George Gutch (1790-1894) was a British architect and to four successive Bishops of London surveyor for much of the Diocese's southern strip of the parish of Paddington. Background Gutch was son of John Gutch, rector of St Clement's and regis ...

, based on an earlier conception by

Samuel Pepys Cockerell Samuel Pepys Cockerell (15 February 1753 – 12 July 1827) was an English architect. He was a son of John Cockerell, of Bishop's Hull, Somerset, and the elder brother of Sir Charles Cockerell, 1st Baronet, for whom he designed the house he is ...

. Gloucester Terrace was designed largely by the

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s William Kingdom and William King. The

Hallfield Estate The Hallfield Estate, owned by Westminster City Council, is one of several modernist housing projects in Bayswater, London designed in the immediate postwar period by the Tecton architecture practice, led by Berthold Lubetkin. Following the di ...

to the west of Gloucester Terrace, is a

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addition built after the

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Notable occupants

* Brand Sapte *

Anne Parsons, Countess of Rosse Anne Parsons, Countess of Rosse (''née'' Messel, previously Armstrong-Jones; 8 February 1902 – 3 July 1992), was an English socialite and one of the founders of The Victorian Society. She was the mother of Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of ...

References

Bibliography

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