Kensington Living
Brunswick Gardens
Brunswick Gardens runs north from Vicarage Gate and it is a wide tree-lined road with white stuccoed terraces on either side.
The houses have small front gardens and are mainly two storeys plus basement. They are large family houses and the street is unexpectedly quiet, although very convenient for Kensington Church Street.
The northern end of Brunswick Gardens branches to the east and this part of the street is a particularly attractive and quiet backwater.
Brunswick Gardens was part of the Sheffield House and Glebe Estate.
The plots for Nos. 1-19 Brunswick Gardens, on the west side, were leased to Henry Little by Thomas Robinson in 1858-9 and Little built the houses there.
Thomas Finlay, a Paddington builder, built Nos. 21 – 33 Brunswick Gardens between 1856 and 1862.
Nos. 35-39 (odd) were built by Jeremiah and Henry Little in 1856-7.
On the east side, the houses to appear to have been built mainly by a Paddington builder, William Lloyd Edwards. He took leases of Nos. 2-56 in 1861, with the exception of Nos. 22-32 which went to Thomas Huggett, a Kensington builder in the same year.
