Kensington Living
Palace Gardens Terrace
Palace Gardens Terrace is a long street running from Notting Hill Gate down to Vicarage Gate in the south. The street is wide and lined with mature trees.
Both sides of the street contain terraces of stuccoed houses, which are mainly four storeys high (with basements), and which are set well back from the road. The southern part of the street has a rather grand, double-width pavement and the houses are approached directly off the street with raised ground floors.
When the pavement reverts to being a normal single width, the houses no longer have raised ground floors, but do have the benefit of small attractive front gardens.
Palace Gardens Terrace was part of the Sheffield House and Glebe Estate
Starting at the southern end, William Lloyd Edwards, a Paddington builder, took leases of Nos. 2-40 in 1859. Jeremiah Little, another major builder in the area, took leases of the plots of Nos. 42-90 in 1858, but it is believed that Edwards also built Nos. 42-58. Nos. 92-102 at the top end, were eventually leased to Jeremiah Little, who probably built the houses in 1871 along with Nos. 1-12 Strathmore Gardens.
The houses on the west side of Palace Gardens Terrace were also mainly built by Edwards or the Little family. In 1860, Edwards took a lease of the plots for Nos. 1-19 at the southern end. Thomas Huggett, another local builder, built Nos. 21-33 at the same time. Edwards carried on the work northwards with Nos. 35-53 in about 1864. Jeremiah or Henry Little constructed Nos. 55 and 57 at the top end in about 1856.
