Craven Hill Gardens is a residential garden estate which has two small garden squares.
William Craven, 3rd Baron Craven bought Upton Farm, which was situated at the end of a tree-lined lane from the Bayswater Road in 1733.
The farm lay next to the Bayswater Rivulet (Westbourne) amongst barns and a pest house built by Lord Craven.
By 1742, the farm had been marked for development as ’Craven Hill’ and the pest house has disappeared.
Artistic figures were attracted to the still-rural district - the publisher Edward Orme, poet Sarah Flower Adams and composer Eliza Flower all arrived in the first half of the 19th century.
Through the rest of the 19th century and into the 20th, the area remained wealthy as it fully urbanised. Charles Booth’s poverty map of 1889 coloured the area gold.
It is made up of four rows of residential buildings lining three streets. Craven Hill Gardens forms two rectangles surrounded by Victorian properties in tall, long terraces.
A 1960s block called Corringham, now built there is architecturally significant. These days Craven Hill Gardens is a mix of flats, hotels, consulates and embassies.
