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Douro Place

Douro Place is a small street on the west side of Victoria Road. The street is a cul-de-sac and very quiet.

It consists of a mixture of brick and stuccoed houses all with very attractive front gardens, some with basement garages as well. The houses are mainly three-storeys plus basement and are attractive family houses with small front gardens.

There is a blue plaque to ‘Samuel Palmer 1805-1881’, the artist who lived in a house here.

Douro Place was part of the Vallotton Estate. In 1846 Vallotton leased the building land for Douro Place to two Kensington builders, Frederick Woods and William Wheeler. They constructed eight houses in pairs (Nos. 1 – 8) on the north side in 1846 and another pair (Nos. 13-14) on the south side in 1847. But Weeler’s bankruptcy in 1848 stopped work. Construction was taken up again in 1850 by Mark Patrick, a local builder, who completed the work on the south side of Douro Place with Nos. 9-12.

The earlier houses have stucco facades. The later house have brick facades and canted bays at the ground floor level.

The painter Samuel Palmer lived at No. 6 from 1851-61.