Notable Buildings
The square has a number of notable buildings, many with distinguished connections marked by blue plaques.
Numbers 1, 1A, 2-8 and 33-40 are grade I listed buildings.
- No. 6 holds the office and library of the Georgian Group.
- No. 7 was the home of Sir Charles Eastlake, first director of the National Gallery.
- No. 8 was the home of the painter James McNeill Whistler.
- No. 9 was the home of chemist August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818–1892).
- No. 13-14 was home to St Luke's Hospital for the Clergy (1904-2009).
- No. 19 was the base for the 'International School' run by Louise Michel in the 1890s. Later it was the home of Bloomsbury Group artist Duncan Grant (c. 1909).
- No. 21 was the home of English statesman and Prime Minister Lord Salisbury. It is now occupied by the embassy of Mozambique.
- No. 23 is the embassy of Liberia.
- No. 27 was the home of theatre critic and occasional Shaw collaborator William Archer.
- No. 28 is the headquarters of the Magistrates' Association.
- No. 29 was the home of George Bernard Shaw from 1887 until his marriage in 1898; and later of Virginia Woolf 1907-1911.
- No. 33 housed Roger Fry's Omega Workshop, creating avant-garde furniture from 1913 to 1919.
- No. 34-35, owned by Guy Ritchie, was controversially squatted as the London Free School in 2011.
- No. 37 was the home of the artist Sir William Quiller Orchardson from 1862, an address he shared for three years with John Pettie. Later it was the home of the artist Ford Maddox Brown and childhood home of his grandson, the writer Ford Maddox Ford.
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