Basil Street

It was laid out in the second half of the eighteenth century on land belonging to Lord Cadogan and runs between Sloane Street in the north and the junction of Walton Place and Hans Road in the south.

Fashion designer Charles Creed had his premises there after the war and in the 1960s, the first meetings that led to Monty Python's Flying Circus were held at a flat in the street.

[4] It was built in a "restrained free Baroque style", and the lead architects were Owen Fleming and Charles Winmill, who had previously worked for the LCC Housing Department.

[6] Lincoln House, a pair of identical mansion blocks on the west side designed in 1903 by John A. Gill Knight for Harry Johnson, are grade II listed with Historic England.

They were masculine in tone, with dark panelling on the walls and displays of Napoleonic toy soldiers (Creed had a fine collection that was later to be the subject of a British Pathé film).