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The Gardeners Hut, Soho Square is an original oil painting by Nick Grove.
Original Oil paintings by award winning artist Nick Grove RSMA.
Nestled in the heart of Soho, just a few yards from the thoroughfares of Oxford Street, you will find the delightful Soho Square. It’s a relatively small square but it has a lot to offer. Proudly stood at its centre is Tudor-styled Gardeners Hut. Some urban legends suggest it hides a secret tunnel to Buckingham Palace, but we can safely dismiss that as a myth.
Despite its quirky, timbered appearance, the hut isn’t actually Tudor. It was built in 1925, cleverly designed to conceal something far more modern—an electricity substation for the Charing Cross Electricity Company. The station needed a private, above-ground entrance, and since there had been a hut on that spot since the 1870s, this new design served as a bit of architectural camouflage.
Nowadays the hut is little more than a shed. It’s filled with gardening tools, used to keep Soho Square prim and pretty.
