Earls Terrace
Earls Terrace, 2015
Earls Terrace is a street in Kensington, London, W8 with houses on one side only, a terrace of 23 Grade II listed Georgian houses.
The entire terrace of 23 houses was redeveloped by Northacre, adding underground garages, and in 2001 sold for a total of £95 million.[1]
The communal garden is 0.5057 hectares (1.250 acres) in size, it is not open to the public.[2]
Notable residents
Blue plaque, 14 Earls Terrace
Blue plaque, 12 Earls Terrace
The pop singer Madonna once rented there, and the childrens' author J. K. Rowling had a home there in 2001.[1]
- #12 Walter Pater (1839-1894), essayist, literary and art critic, and writer of fiction, lived at no. 12 from 1885 to 1893.
- #14 Thomas Daniell (1749-1840), English landscape painter, lived and died at no. 14.
- #20 George Thomas Robinson (1827-1897), architect, lived and died at no. 20.
- Francis Ludlow Holt (1780-1844), legal and dramatic author, died at Earls Terrace.
- Joseph Hirst Lupton (1836–1905), schoolmaster, cleric and writer, died at Earls Terrace.
References
- 1 2 Withers, Malcolm (10 August 2001). "Full house for Northacre". thisismoney. Retrieved 26 November 2015.
- ↑ "Earls Terrace". London Gardens Online. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
Coordinates: 51°29′52″N 0°12′05″W / 51.4979°N 0.2013°W
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