Lennox Gardens was built over the final remaining market garden (Cattleugh’s nursery gardens) in the area which still existed during the 1870s.
Building in the Queen Anne style took place piecemeal over most of the Cadogan Estate after 1874. In Hans Town the Estate engaged in wholesale rebuilding as well as developing the remaining open land, seeking a style and type of building which united the area with the upper middle-class areas to the east.
The red-brick and terracotta Queen Anne style was radically different from the existing stock brick and stucco in neo-classical or Italianate style that existed in Hans Town and neighbouring Belgravia. The style was used in this new form for mainly speculative building.
The Queen Anne version developed here, with forms and motifs borrowed from 17th-century Flemish town houses, emphasized the individuality of each house.
The 54 houses of Lennox Gardens were under construction in 1882 and completed by 1886. In the centre just over an acre was laid out as a shrub and ornamental garden accessible to the householders. The garden was laid out on the pitch of the late 19th-century Prince’s Club’s former Prince’s Cricket Ground, which itself had been laid out on Cattleugh’s nursery gardens.
