On the south side of the road, between Knightsbridge Green and Rutland Gate was the Rose and Crown.
The Rose and Crown, also known as the ’Oliver Cromwell’ in the 1840s, was the oldest house in Knightsbridge - formerly its largest inn.
Formerly the ’Rose’ at 16 High Road (then the name for the south side of Knightsbridge), it was reputedly used as quarters by Cromwell’s troops. However it bore the date 1679, and had timber galleries at the rear, overlooking a spacious stable yard.
In 1849 residents of High Row, Lowndes Terrace, Trevor Terrace, Rutland Gate and elsewhere petitioned against the granting of music and dancing licences to various public houses in the district, including the Rose and Crown, Marquis of Granby, King’s Head and Rising Sun, on the grounds that "if such licences were granted immorality of all kinds in the neighbourhood already greatly abounding owing to its close proximity to the Barracks would be vastly increased".
Local opposition notwithstanding, the High Road enjoyed a musical heyday through the 1850s and 1860s. The Rose and Crown was licensed for music and dancing from 1852 to 1876.
Rutland Yard, formerly the stable-yard of the Rose and Crown, continued to be used for stabling into the twentieth century. It was latterly converted for warehousing and garaging before being obliterated in the 1950s, along with much of the rest of the High Road, for the building of Mercury House.
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On the south side of the road, between Knightsbridge Green and Rutland Gate was the Rose and Crown.
