Cornwall Gardens were built between 1862 and 1879, named in honour of Prince of Wales's coming-of-age in 1862, and during the latter 19th Century saw many Indian administrators, lawyers and soldiers living in the mansion houses. Anciently, the thin block of land here stretching westwards from Gloucester Road to the Edwardes estate comprised two copyholds belonging to the manor of Earl's Court, amounting together to nearly eleven acres.