It runs south-west to north-east from Upper Belgrave Street to Grosvenor Place.
The poet Algernon Charles Swinburne was born at no 7 in 1837, the eldest of six children of Captain (later Admiral) Charles Henry Swinburne (1797–1877) and Lady Jane Henrietta, daughter of the George Ashburnham, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham.
[1] The businessman and banker George Macaulay Booth was living in the same house in 1936.
The artist Frederick Yeates Hurlstone died at no 9 in 1869.
In 1920, John Godley, 3rd Baron Kilbracken was born in Chester Street.