[3][4] In the face of proposals for its partial redevelopment, in 1938 the Georgian Group campaigned to preserve the square, staging a successful fundraising Ball and Fair in the gardens.

The Group aimed to ensure ‘that as many people as possible may see Mecklenburgh Square as it is now: one of the last perfect examples of Georgian architecture in London’.

The Square is perhaps best known as the home of some of the most celebrated writers of the early 20th Century, including Virginia Woolf who lived at no.

[5] The garden was laid out between 1809 and 1810 as the centrepiece of the newly developed Mecklenburgh Square; buildings on the eastern side were designed by architect Joseph Kay.

[6] To the west is Coram's Fields, and to the east is Gray's Inn Road, a major local thoroughfare.