George Moore occupied the entirety of 121 Ebury Street, a terraced house in the Belgravia neighborhood of London, from 1911 when he closed his home in Dublin until January 1933 when he died.
Nancy Cunard recalled: “His bedroom was on the second floor front above the harmoniously-arranged drawing-room, its eighteenth-century furniture complemented with some early-Victorian pieces of fine quality. The breakfast room as he sometimes called it (to me simply the room) was on the ground floor. Here he sat much, saw most of his visitors and also worked a good deal. The long, pleasant room had an agreeable bow-window on the street; you could not see into it from without but were perceived by G.M. from within. At the other end, a window opening on to a small space made the room agreeably light. In it were many of his beautiful and valuable paintings.” Nancy Cunard, GM Memories of George Moore (London, Rupert-Hart-Davis, 1956, page 95)
The address features in the name of his book of imaginary dialogues, Conversations in Ebury Street (1924).
A blue porcelain memorial plaque near the front door was erected in 1936 by the London County Council and replaced in 1937 to correct George’s year of birth.
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