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. Its thoroughfare status has been curtailed as the road allows only a right-turn into arterial Bayswater Road to the south. Late-twentieth-century apartments built as
social housing flank its northern and
de facto southern ends. The southern end has shorter Victorian buildings than Leinster Gardens, of yellow brick with white casements and simpler
dressings. The southern part of the road is named Leinster Terrace. Leinster Terrace's east side is
Craven Hill Gardens and
Lancaster Gate with one exception, its first numbers. These are today in its centre, 16, 17 and 17A: one of which is a listed public house, the Leinster Arms. 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. 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. This is behind a narrow band of trees, shrubs and railings. 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. These shophouses are flanked by one-storey restaurants (nos. 18 and 35). A broad alley marks the end of the Leinster Terrace section of the street. ==Toponymy==