Where to buy in Holland Park

Holland Park Avenue, which becomes Notting Hill, divides the neighbourhood. It contains some of the largest houses in the area, with big houses with extensive front gardens in many cases. The houses are often stucco faced. Many of them have been converted into flats. Holland Park (the road) is a rectangle of streets with Holland Park Mews sandwiched between them. The houses in this road are among the most expensive in the area, particularly those with a view over the Park itself. They have a very individual appearance with cast iron and glass canopies over the entrances. The mews contains smaller cottages. Holland Park turns into Abbotsbury Road as it runs beside the Park and this contains a number of more modern houses and blocks of flats, such as Abbotsbury House. There are a series of cul-de-sacs, all called Abbotsbury Close, containing houses built in the 1960s along the western side of the road. At the southern end is Oakwood Court which is a series of Victorian mansion blocks. On the other side of Abbotsbury Road is Ilchester Place, a prestigious street, which contains wide red-brick 1950s-style houses with open front gardens, and with the attraction that they back onto Holland Park. The area of Melbury Road and Holland Park Road in the corner between Addison Road and Kensington High Street was an artists’ ghetto of the late Victorian era; and there are idiosyncratic houses by Norman Shaw and Halsey Ricardo in Melbury Road, and the former home of Lord Leighton is in Holland Park Road, and is open to the public. Some of these mansions are in their own grounds. Many of them have been converted into flats. Close to Kensington High Street there are blocks of flats such as Woodsford, Stavordale Lodge and Park Close. St Mary Abbots Terrace is a modern development of neo-Georgian houses, shoehorned in between Holland Park Road and Kensington High Street. Addison Road runs up to Addison Crescent. It contains some very large stucco fronted villas, as well as a terrace of Gothic-style Victorian houses. Monckton Court and Farley Court are blocks of flats in their own grounds. There are more detached and semi-detached houses in Addison Crescent. Addison Road continues north with large secluded houses in their own gardens. Somerset Square and Woodsford Square are 20th-century developments of houses and flats off the east side of Addison Road. Addisland Court is a 1930s mansion block at the top of Addison Road. Holland Villas Road runs behind Addison Road and contains similar sought-after villas. There are smaller houses in Upper Addison Gardens and Lower Addison Gardens which run off Holland Villas Road to Holland Road. These contain mainly terraced houses.

Holland Road itself is a mixture of houses and styles. Russell Road and Elsham Road have terraces of properties which are a mixture of houses, hotels and flats. There are mews cottages in Napier Place and Russell Gardens Mews. Holland Park continues on the north side of Holland Park Avenue. Royal Crescent is a set of terraces in Regency style, with white stucco faced houses opposite the Kensington Hilton hotel. Royal Crescent Mews stands behind the Crescent with period and modern cottages. St Ann’s Villas, which becomes St Ann’s Road, runs north from the centre of Royal Crescent. It contains a mixture of houses and purpose-built blocks of flats. Queensdale Road is the centre of this part of Holland Park. It contains some smaller terraced houses, as does Queensdale Place in a cul-de-sac off it to the east. Addison Avenue, which cuts across Queensdale Road, has some of the most sought-after houses in this part with small terraced houses. It is crossed by St James’s Gardens with its grand semi-detached houses.

Norland Square is just north of Holland Park Avenue and has its own garden and tennis Court. Behind it is Norland Place, a mews with cottages, leading into Princedale Road with a range of Victorian houses. Penzance Place and Portland Road also contain terraced Victorian houses in a variety of shapes and sizes. Clarendon Road which is parallel to Portland Road contains larger Victorian properties, but this is the edge of Notting Hill rather than Holland Park. Pottery Lane contains late Victorian terraced houses, and nearby is Hippodrome Mews which was a 1970s mews development. The strip between Holland Road and the railway line is arguably still part of Holland Park.