Milner Street, SW3
The interior of St Simon Zelotes church, Milner Street, SW3
Credit: Geograph/John Salmon
Milner Street runs roughly west from Cadogan Square, crossing Ovington Street, Lennox Gardens and Clabon Mews.

The trustees of Mary Jane Milner owned a slip of land between Cheyne Walk and King’s Road.

The area to the south of Hans Square was occupied by a large house, The Pavilion, the gardens of which were laid out by Capability Brown. They were extensive by the middle of the 19th century.

The delightfully-named Green Lettuce Lane connected The Pavilion via a private road to (what is now) Draycott Avenue; the private road was almost fully developed as Milner Street by 1865; Green Lettuce Lane is now Mossop Street.

St Simon Zelotes, a grade II listed church, was built in Milner Street during 1858–59. It was designed by the architect Joseph Peacock, and is his "most complete surviving work".

Other notable buildings include 10 Milner Street, sometimes known as Stanley House a grade II listed house built by the Chelsea speculator John Todd in 1855, for his own occupation. It has been grade II listed since 1969.

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