Lowndes Square and Lowndes Street form the boundary with Belgravia which is further east. Lowndes Square is mainly comprised of 1930s mansion blocks. Lowndes Street is partly commercial but contains terraces of stucco fronted houses at the southern end of the street as well as Chelsea House, a large Edwardian mansion block. Cadogan Place off Lowndes Street contains flats and houses backing onto gardens next to Sloane Street which also contains flats.

Knightsbridge continues on the other side of Sloane Street with the area dominated by Harrods on Brompton Road. The surrounding streets - Hans Crescent, Hans Road and Basil Street - contain large red-brick late-Victorian mansion blocks. Hans Place is a square with its own private gardens overlooked by large late-Victorian houses in the Dutch style. Walton Place nearby has earlier Victorian houses in white stucco facades. There is an entrance into Pont Street Mews, which contains smaller cottages. Beaufort Gardens contains more late Victorian terraced houses. Beauchamp Place, which is the western boundary for this part of Knightsbridge, is mainly commercial, but with some flats above shops. Brompton Place contains cottages.

Walton Street runs south west to Fulham Road and the area to the north is still Knightsbridge. The first few streets after Beauchamp Place are Ovington Square, Gardens and Mews. Ovington Square contains tall terraced houses built in the 1840s with white stucco facades. Ovington Gardens has similar but slightly smaller properties. There are quaint cottages in Ovington Mews. In Yeoman’s Row, also a mews, there is a mixture of period and modern cottages. Next come “the Egertons” - Egerton Gardens, Place, Terrace. Mews and Crescent. Egerton Garden Mews contains more mews cottages. Egerton Place and Egerton Terrace contain mainly tall mansion blocks with red brick facades in the late-Victorian Dutch style. Egerton Crescent is a beautiful Georgian terrace of houses with stucco facades looking out over a private garden. The southern portion of Egerton Terrace also contains some good-looking stucco faced houses.

North of Brompton Road, Knightsbridge begins in the angle of Knightsbridge and Brompton Road. Park Mansions is a large mansion block near the corner. A large redevelopment has taken place in the area of Raphael Street and Lancelot Place, providing new flats. Further west along Knightsbridge come Trevor Square and Trevor Place. These contain terraces of early Victorian houses. The area south of Trevor Square was formerly a Harrods depot and has been developed as flats. Further west along Knightsbridge from Trevor Place is the large residential development known as “The Knightsbridge” with blocks of flats and mews houses. South of this development area towards Brompton Road and you are back to a more traditional Victorian areas with Montpelier Square with brick-and-stucco Victorian houses facing on to private gardens. Nearby Montpelier Walk contains smaller houses. Cheval Place contains cottages as well as some blocks of flats and shops. Montpelier Place and Montpelier Street also contain moderate sized brick-and-stucco terraced houses.

Next along Brompton Road comes Brompton Square which contains terraces of Georgian houses overlooking narrow central gardens. Brompton Square was built earlier than the rest of Knightsbridge and has a quite separate feel. The houses back onto Ennismore Gardens. This contains large terraces of stone fronted Victorian houses overlooking private central gardens. Behind runs Ennismore Gardens Mews, which contains brightly painted cottages. The Kingston House block of flats constructed in the 1930s run across Ennismore Gardens. To the east is Rutland Gate which contains two separate squares. The North Square contains houses with brick and stucco facades. The southern square contains mainly stucco fronted houses. They are separated by Eresby House, another large mansion block. There are numerous small cottage properties in Rutland Gardens, Rutland Mews West, Rutland Street and Fairholt Street. Many of the houses are among the earliest in Knightsbridge. The Royal Albert Hall lies to the west and in Prince Consort Road there are five large mansion blocks called Albert Hall Mansions, built in the Dutch style and designed by Norman Shaw in the 1880s. Another mansion block, Albert Court, is in Prince Consort Road.

Knightsbridge got its name from a local bridge across the Westbourne river (near Albert Gate) where two knights fought a duel to the death in the 11th century. In fact, well into the 18th century, it remained a favoured place for duels, and it was also infested with highwaymen.