20-602: Melbury Road is a residential road in the Holland Park area of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea , London , England. It is known for houses owned by the Victorian Holland Park Circle , an informal group of 19th-century artists, including William Burges , Luke Fildes , Frederic Leighton , Valentine Prinsep , Hamo Thornycroft , and George Frederick Watts . The road links Addison Road (A3220) to
40-679: A café, as well as the Belvedere Restaurant that is attached to the orangery , a giant chess set, a cricket pitch, tennis courts, two Japanese gardens - the Kyoto Garden (1991) and Fukushima Memorial Garden (2012), a youth hostel , a children's playground, squirrels and peacocks . In 2010, the park set aside a section for pigs whose job was to reclaim the area from nettles etc., in order to create another meadow area for wildflowers and fauna. Cattle were used subsequently to similar effect. The Holland Park Ecology Centre (2013), operated by
60-504: A tower, a feature which would not have been found in the earlier classically inspired architecture of the 18th century which the design of the crescent seeks to emulate. The plan of the Royal Crescent was the design of the planner Robert Cantwell , and it was the need for the newly fashionable underground sewers which caused the crescent to be designed in two halves rather than any consideration for architectural aesthetics. On early maps it
80-712: Is a Grade II* listed street in Holland Park , west London , England, consisting of two curved facing terraces in a crescent shape. The crescent is located on the north side of Holland Park Avenue , west of Addison Avenue, and to the east of the Holland Park Roundabout. St Ann's Villas leads north off the Crescent. Between the facing terraces is a landscaped communal garden with expansive lawns and numerous trees. The houses themselves are stucco fronted and are built on four floors, with porticoed entrances, above which are small first-floor balconies with iron railings. Each of
100-475: Is a part-cobbled cul-de-sac off Queensdale Road in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It contains 34 properties used for residential purposes. It is part of Kensington's Norland Conservation Area; first designated in 1969, it contains Royal Crescent, Norland Square and St. James's gardens. Building of the area began in the 1840s and was completed just fifteen years later. It contains linked terraces and
120-537: Is among the most expensive residential areas in London and the United Kingdom . Past and present residents include David and Victoria Beckham , Sir Elton John , David Cameron , Ed Sheeran , Sir Richard Branson , and Robbie Williams , among others. The small neighborhood is further home to the embassies of several countries, including Azerbaijan , Ukraine , Greece , Jordan , Russia and Lebanon . The area
140-510: Is marked as Norland Crescent. The stucco fronted crescent is painted white, in the style of the many Nash terraces which can be seen elsewhere in London's smarter residential areas. Today many of these four storey houses have been converted to apartments, although a few remain as private houses. The Royal Crescent is listed Grade II*. Behind the terraces is the Royal Crescent Mews. The Mews
160-462: Is principally composed of tree-lined streets with large Victorian mansions and contains shops, cultural tourist attractions such as the Design Museum , luxury spas, hotels, and restaurants along Holland Park Avenue and Kensington High Street . Holland Park is located between Notting Hill and South Kensington , west of Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park . While there are no official boundaries,
180-478: The Holland Park Circle and others: This London location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Holland Park Holland Park is an area of Kensington , on the western edge of Central London , that lies within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and largely surrounds its namesake park, Holland Park. Colloquially referred to as 'Millionaire's Row', Holland Park
200-469: The Holland Park Circle , lived in the area, especially in Melbury Road and Holland Park Road . Lansdowne House, at Lansdowne Road. is a Grade II listed eight-storey building which was originally constructed in 1902–04 by Scottish architect William Flockhart, for South African mining magnate Sir Edmund Davis. The building contained apartments and artists' workshops. Among the artists who had studios in
220-556: The Second World War in 1940, but the ruins and the grounds were bought by London County Council in 1952 from the last private owner, the 6th Earl of Ilchester . Today the remains of the house form a backdrop for the open air Holland Park Theatre, which is the home of Opera Holland Park . To the immediate south of the park is the former site of the Commonwealth Institute , now home to the Design Museum . The park contains
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#1732848892084240-454: The Holland Ward was historically bounded by Kensington High Street to the south, Holland Road to the west, Holland Park Avenue to the north, and Kensington Palace Gardens to the east. Adjacent districts are Notting Hill to the north, Earl's Court to the south, and Shepherd's Bush to the west. The district was rural until the 19th century, and most of the area now referred to by
260-631: The area. Notable 19th-century residential developments in the area include the Royal Crescent and Aubrey House . It also included some small areas around the fringes which had never been part of the grounds of Holland House, notably the Phillimore Estate (there are at least four roads with the word Phillimore in their name) and the Campden Hill Square area. In the late 19th century, a number of notable artists and art collectors (including Frederic Leighton , P.R.A. and Val Prinsep ), known as
280-520: The borough's Ecology Service, provides environmental education programmes including nature walks, talks, programmes for schools, and outdoor activity programs for children. In the northwest of the park near Abbotsbury Road , installed in 2000, is the outdoor sculpture Tortoises with Triangle and Time by Wendy Taylor , commissioned by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea for the Millennium . Royal Crescent, London The Royal Crescent
300-449: The building in the early decades of the 20th century were Charles Ricketts , Charles Haslewood Shannon , Glyn Philpot , Vivian Forbes , James Pryde , and Frederick Cayley Robinson , who are commemorated on a blue plaque on the building. The building underwent significant alterations. When, in 1957, record producer Denis Preston was looking for a property in which to set up a recording studio, his assistant engineer Joe Meek found
320-502: The end houses have circular corners. Designed in 1839, The Royal Crescent is one of the most architecturally interesting Nineteenth Century developments in Holland Park . Evidently inspired by its older namesake in Bath , it differs from the Bath crescent in that it is not strictly a true crescent but rather two quadrant terraces each terminated by a circular bow in the Regency style, rising as
340-454: The name Holland Park was formerly the grounds of a Jacobean mansion called Cope Castle . In the later decades of that century the owners of the house sold off the more outlying parts of its grounds for residential development, and the district which evolved took its name from the house. Large parts of Holland Park were constructed between 1860 and 1880 by master builders William and Francis Radford, who were contracted to build over 200 houses in
360-417: The premises, which had unusually high ceilings and a basement squash court , suitable for conversion into a studio. Preston, Meek and (a year later) engineer Adrian Kerridge then established the studio, and made their first recordings there in 1958. The studio was London's first independent music recording studio. In 1962, an enlarged control room overlooking the studio floor was opened. Kerridge later became
380-440: The studio's owner. The studios closed in 2006 and the building was subsequently converted into 13 self-contained apartments, while retaining a small recording studio. The park covers about 22.5 hectares (56 acres), with a northern half of semi-wild woodland, central section of formal garden areas, and southernmost section used for sport. Holland House is now a fragmentary ruin, having been devastated by incendiary bombing during
400-670: The west with Kensington High Street to the south. There is a junction with Holland Park Road , location of the Leighton House Museum . The road was created on the Ilchester Estate , named in 1875 after the Dorset home of the Earl of Ilchester . The Kensington home of Lord Holland was demolished in 1875 to make way for the road. The following historic houses are of special interest, many listed and some with blue plaques for members of
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