Durand Gardens is a street of terraces, semi-detached and detached houses.
The town houses of Durand Gardens were built from 1840 to the 1890s.
Originally called The Grove, it was renamed Durand Gardens in 1893 after Sir Mortimer Durand who established the dividing line between India and Afghanistan that year.
The irregular shape of the area might be attributed to its history as a possible site of a plague pit.
