Norland Square is a street in Notting Hill.
Norland Square is an attractive garden square, the south part of which looks onto Holland Park Avenue. There is a private central garden, which also includes a tennis court.
The houses are mainly on 4-storeys (with basement) and are stucco-fronted. Many of the houses have very attractive ground floor bay windows, with metal railings and small balconies at first floor level.
Charles Richardson, the land-owner, had trouble persuading investors or speculators to take plots. The people who did commit to taking plots were connected to Richardson. For instance, his brother, Walter Richardson took the northern section above Queensdale Road, Nos. 19 to 35. This was probably intended to give the false appearance of commercial interest in the development to encourage other takers.
Those builders who were persuaded to invest took only single plots, except for James Emmins, a builder from Bayswater who took Nos. 38-44, but he was well known for periodically going bankrupt, leaving his creditors with nothing, and Richardson got the same treatment. Although all the plots were allocated by 1844, the proposed houses were not all built and occupied until 1852.
The houses in the terrace were four storeys high, with basements as well. The facades were stuccoed. Bay windows at basement and ground floor levels supported a balcony with cast iron balustrades which ran right along the front of the terrace at first floor level. Cornices ran along the façade above first and second floor level.
