The London Planes provide a shaded spot in a garden with formal lawns, bedding, ornamental shrubs and a fountain, creating a quiet shaded oasis from a very busy environment in the Pimlico area.
The square was originally laid out about 1820 and opened to the public in 1884. Ebury Street and Ebury Square were so called from Ebury or Eabery Farm, which stood on this site.