Hereford Square

Hereford Square was built by the architect Thomas Holmes from 1845 to 1850. The directly bomb struck houses from World War II have been rebuilt to imitate their original style recently after being yellow brick buildings for over 50 years. However, 1-5 are still concrete boxes. The houses all follow a relatively similar design with landings, many floors and an underground storage shed also used as a plant room or server room as well as a patio at the back. ==Notable buildings and residents==

• George Crichton Wells (1914–1999), dermatologist • George Borrow (1803–1881), lived at No. 22. • Frederick William Hulme (1816–1884), landscape painter and illustrator, lived at No. 4, according to the 1851 census. • John Arrowsmith, cartographer, lived at No. 35 from 1861 to 1873. • Robert Nandor Berki, political scientist, lived at No. 7 in the late 1950s. • William Henry Brookfield, clergyman, died at No. 16 in 1874. • H. O. Arnold-Forster, writer and politician, died at No. 27 in 1909. The artist Walter Sickert and his wife Ellen stayed at No. 10 Hereford Square in the autumn of 1890 with Ellen's sister, Jane Cobden. The model and writer Tara Moss recalled living in a "freezing granny flat" of a mansion in Hereford Square while she worked as a babysitter during the early days of her modelling career in her 2014 memoir The Fictional Woman. The writer and social activist Frances Power Cobbe lived with her partner, the sculptor Mary Lloyd, at No. 26 from 1862 to 1884. ==Fictional references==

The central character in Iris Murdoch's A Severed Head lives in Hereford Square. ==References==