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Two terraces each of three houses face the park while, within the square around a carriageway and central garden, two semidetached houses stand to the west with two more to the south and a standalone villa to the east. Another detached house had been added to the west by 1830. According to rate books
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It was set out and first occupied between 1820 and 1826 in the environs of Kensington Palace and was one of the first developments beyond Tyburn (the present Marble Arch) which then marked the western rim of London. It therefore contains several of the oldest houses in Bayswater including five
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The square features a distinctive double Tuscan column topped by a bird facing the entrance to the Orme Gate in Kensington Gardens. Over the years, the statue has sparked controversy, with different interpretations suggesting it could represent an eagle, a phoenix, or a falcon.
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There has been some confusion about early residents, partly because street names changed frequently and house numbers were absent or informal until 1855. Wrong attributions include the forger
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The square (originally known as Ormes Square) is named after the British engraver, painter, publisher of illustrated books, and property developer
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In the late 1940s, after the north-west of the square was bombed during the Blitz, a thirteenth house was inserted to the west.
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1. William Harvey, business tycoon who built then sold the British Printing Corporation to Robert Maxwell.
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Numbers 1 and 2, originally modest houses, acquired a classical facade, probably in the late 1860s.
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of England who lived in a grand house close by at 8 Bayswater Hill but not at 8 Orme Square.
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in the garden in which many important works were performed for the first time in England"
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1. Isambard Kingdom Brunel, son and biographer of the ship and railway engineer
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Nos.1 and 3 were already occupied by 1826 and No.2 by 1827.
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whose Orme Gate entrance takes its name from the square.
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Bayswater
Bayswater Road
Hyde Park
Kensington Gardens
Grade II listed buildings
Edward Orme
Rowland Hill
penny post

Rowland Hill
Frederic Leighton
Sir Ernest Cassel
King Edward VII
George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood
Marion Stein
David Lascelles, 8th Earl of Harewood
Liberal
Jeremy Thorpe
Emelia Russell Gurney
Margaret Torrie
Gordon White
Nick Ross
John Lawrence Toole
John Passmore Edwards
Charles Weatherby
Alexander Montgomery Carlisle
Geoffrey Lawrence
Mackenzie Bell
John Mayall

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