Belgravia
Upper Belgrave Street
Upper Belgrave Street is a wide one-way street consisting of very grand and imposing buildings (mainly stuccoed) with one-way traffic going north to south.
It stretches from the south east corner of Belgrave Square to the north east corner of Eaton Square. Particularly imposing is Chester House on the west side.
No. 14 on the west side is very attractive, being just a ground floor and basement.
Many of the buildings were constructed by Thomas Cubitt in the 1820s and 1830s. Nos. 3 to 11 on the eastern side are particularly interesting. No. 13 was built for an illegitimate child of William IV.
Like Belgravia itself, Upper Belgrave Street was named after Belgrave, a village near Leicester owned by the Grosvenor family.
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) lived at No 12 in 1880 - 1. Walter Bagehot (1826-1877), Writer, Banker and Economist, lived at No 9 at some point.
