Earls Terrace

Earls Terrace, 2015

Earls Terrace is a street in Kensington, London, W8 with houses on one side only, a terrace of 23 Georgian houses, all of which are Grade II listed.^[1]

Earls Terrace overlooks Kensington High Street, with a grass and garden in front, and backs onto Edwardes Square.

The entire terrace of 23 houses was redeveloped by Northacre, adding underground garages, and in 2001 sold for a total of £95 million.^[2]

The communal garden is 0.5057 hectares (1.250 acres) in size, and is not open to the public.^[3]

Notable residents

Blue plaque, 14 Earls Terrace

Blue plaque, 12 Earls Terrace

The pop singer Madonna once rented there, and children's author J. K. Rowling had a home there in 2001.^[2]

• No. 1: Actors Peter Wyngarde and Alan Bates shared a flat at no. 1 for some years in the 1960s^[4]
• No. 12: Walter Pater (1839-1894), essayist, literary and art critic, and writer of fiction, lived at no. 12 from 1885 to 1893.
• No. 14: Thomas Daniell (1749-1840), English landscape painter, lived and died at no. 14.
• No. 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. Historic England. "Earls Terrace (1267156)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
2. Withers, Malcolm (10 August 2001). "Full house for Northacre". thisismoney. Retrieved 26 November 2015.
3. "Earls Terrace". London Gardens Online. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
4. London Electoral Register 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965

External links

Media related to Earls Terrace, Kensington at Wikimedia Commons

Coordinates: 51°29′52″N 0°12′05″W / 51.4979°N 0.2013°W