Leinster Gardens

[1] Leinster Gardens is mostly made up of a half-lined avenue lined with tall, ornate, mid-Victorian terraced houses, which include a number of listed buildings.

The southern end has shorter Victorian buildings than Leinster Gardens, of yellow brick with white casements and simpler dressings.

[4] The street starts opposite Hyde Park with the side elevations of Porchester Lodge/Lancaster Corner (synonym: 100-101 Bayswater Road) which is listed in the middle category (Grade II*) and is marked with a blue plaque to once long-resident writer J. M. Barrie (d. 1937) who wrote Peter Pan.

[5][6] Adjacent, on the west side of the street, is Hyde Park Towers, an eight-storey, dark-brick, Art Deco-inspired block with hexagonal and lozenge projections.

Beyond this are shophouses of yellow-brown then yellow brickwork with a crowning cornice (ledge), other white dressings and sash windows (19-34 consecutive), many of which face the main front of Corringham, an architecturally listed, glass-heavy residential block officially in Craven Hill Gardens, designed by Kenneth Frampton (born 1930, in later life, Ware Professor of Architecture at Columbia University), behind which is a private garden.

Paddington (in which parish grew the newer settlements of Bayswater, Little Venice, Maida Vale and Westbourne) began a trend of names after the provinces of Ireland: Munster, Leinster, Connaught and Ulster.

"The success of the policy was ultimately shown, both in the grandeur of the first new houses in Connaught Place c. 1807 and in the elegance of the terraces put up over the next thirty years.