White stucco terraces of four and five storeys line a long rectangle, with six tree-planted gardens down the middle and a columned church at one end.
What Eaton Square looks like
Eaton Square is a rectangle of white stucco terraces about 492 metres long and 110 metres wide. A main roadway runs its length and divides the square into six compartments, spanned by four lesser roads, most of them one-way. Traffic cannot make a full loop of the outer roads in either direction, and six tree-planted gardens run down the middle.
The terrace at Nos 1 to 7 is brick with some stucco. It rises four storeys above an attic and basement. Ionic porches stand at Nos 2 and 3, and at Nos 5 and 7. Iron spearhead railings run along the areas. Most of the other houses are white stucco, with first-floor balconies. Nos 8 to 23 are stucco under slate mansard roofs, three storeys high.
Several porches carry the house number on a column. St Peter's Church sits on the square with a six-column Ionic portico, and a slender clock tower rises behind it.
The first block went up from 1827, and the terraces are early nineteenth century in style. Many of the houses have been converted into flats, but the facades remain as built. The occupies No 106. Flags on poles stand along the embassy terrace.
Shot in Eaton Square
Clue of the Twisted Candle used the front door of No 75 in 1960. The credit below names the house or the stretch of square it used.
Clue of the Twisted Candle, 1960
The camera faces the front door of 75 Eaton Square. Another shot tilts down to the roadway outside Nos 75 and 76. Street View
What Eaton Square can double for
New Town in Edinburgh, Scotland
The 2020 Belgravia series shot all of this square's exteriors in Edinburgh's New Town. The stucco and porticos were added in post-production. Tight shots of a single house are where the Edinburgh fronts give the production away, so keep those frames wide. Try searching Edinburgh New Town now.
The Royal Crescent in Bath is a single curved row of thirty terraced houses, designed by John Wood the Younger between 1767 and 1775. Its classical front has Ionic columns on a rusticated ground floor and runs as one unbroken line, though the curve changes the look. The curve gives the crescent away in a wide shot, so frame straight across single houses and keep the whole sweep out of the picture. Try searching Bath Royal Crescent now.
