Bayswater Area Guide
Bayswater is known for London’s greatest green space around its proximity. Its residents can boast a palace, lake and horse-riding stables virtually in their front garden. Its cultural and social mix, reflected in the amazingly varied restaurants and food stores that line up along Queensway, lends the area some unusual contrasts. Bayswater is cosmopolitan, comfortable and cultured. There's a strong sense of community here with a residents’ association and local magazine. It is famous for London’s first department store Whiteleys, and for having the highest concentration of hotels in London. The hotels are being converted into residential blocks, and there are big plans to develop Whiteleys and inject new life into Queensway.
Most of the housing in the area now is made up of smart, large white stucco fronted buildings that are four or five storeys high which covers available office spaces. These are often split into flats and many are arranged around attractive garden squares Bayswater is also home to contemporary high spec apartment blocks., There are also some wonderful mews houses.
The Print Room is an arts space in an old Coronet cinema. The building is home to a vibrant fringe theatre and the plan is to restore the cinema itself as well. Every Sunday Bayswater Road becomes one big art gallery, with more than 150 artists and craftspeople displaying their work. There is also an Odeon cinema in the Whiteleys Shopping Centre which offers a luxury and exclusive cinema experience in The Lounge.
Most of the housing in the area now is made up of smart, large white stucco fronted buildings that are four or five storeys high which covers available office spaces. These are often split into flats and many are arranged around attractive garden squares Bayswater is also home to contemporary high spec apartment blocks., There are also some wonderful mews houses.
The Print Room is an arts space in an old Coronet cinema. The building is home to a vibrant fringe theatre and the plan is to restore the cinema itself as well. Every Sunday Bayswater Road becomes one big art gallery, with more than 150 artists and craftspeople displaying their work. There is also an Odeon cinema in the Whiteleys Shopping Centre which offers a luxury and exclusive cinema experience in The Lounge.