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Hans Place (usually pronounced / ˈ h æ n z / HANZ) is a garden square in the Knightsbridge district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, immediately south of Harrods in SW1. It is named after Sir Hans Sloane , 1st Baronet, PRS (16 April 1660 – 11 January 1753), physician and collector, notable for his bequest, which ...
The original "Prince's Club" was founded in 1853 by George and James Prince, [a] owners of a wine and cigar shop in Regent Street, and it opened in 1854.Located on Henry Holland's Pavilion estate, between the current Lennox Gardens, Cadogan Square and Hans Place, an area covering about 13 acres, it was originally a members-only gentlemen's rackets and real tennis club.
Basil Street looking towards Harrods department store. Basil Street, originally known as North Street, is a street in London's Knightsbridge.It was laid out in the second half of the eighteenth century on land belonging to Lord Cadogan and runs between Sloane Street in the north and the junction of Walton Place and Hans Road in the south.
Sloane Place, later The Pavilion, was a large house built by the architect Henry Holland in Knightsbridge, London, and located immediately to the south of Hans Place. [1] In 1774, Holland leased 100 acres of what had been nursery gardens from Lord Cadogan, to redevelop as housing, including Hans Place, keeping 21 acres to build a property for ...
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On the west side, Hans Place leads off the street to the north and Cadogan Square to the south. ... A restaurant called Drones is located at 1 Pont Street ...
By the mid 1880s he had an office in Hans Road, Knightsbridge, and was active in redeveloping Hans Place. [6] He designed 67 Pont Street, now grade II listed, [7] in 1887 and other houses in Hans Place. [6] In 1889 he designed Culgruff House near Crossmichael in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, for Robert Stewart of Southwick.
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