Kensington Living
Scarsdale villas
Scarsdale Villas runs between Earls Court Road and Marloes Road. It is a wide tree-lined street of stuccoed and part-stuccoed houses.
The houses are well set back from the road, many with off-street parking. They are substantial houses, mainly of three floors plus basement.
Due to the width of the street there is a great feeling of light and space and it is one of the prime residential streets in the area.
(See Nokes Estate for a short history of the Abingdon Villas and Scarsdale Villas area.)
Nos. 64-70 (even) on the north west side near Earls Court Road were built in about 1851 by Barnabas Jennings and William Stevenson, who were involved in other parts of the Abingdon Villas and Scarsdale Villas area. The houses between them and the Abingdon Road junction, Nos. 58-62, were built by Joseph Temple and William Forster in 1862. The next stretch between Abingdon Road and Allen Street, comprising Nos. 38-56 (even) were built by Edward Payne Browne, a Kensington builder, in 1862. George Nokes himself was the builder of Nos. 2-24 Scarsdale Villas in 1856. These houses run from Marloes Road westwards. Nos. 26-36 which completed the run of houses as far as Allen Street were probably built in 1857.
The south side of Scarsdale Villas from Marloes Road to Allen Street was constructed between 1858 and 1860. George Godbolt of Chelsea built Nos. 1-7. Robert Wallbutton of New Cross built Nos. 9 - 27. The south side of Scarsdale Villas from Allen Street to Earls Court Road was mostly constructed in 1862-3. Alfred Judd, a builder from Willesden, built Nos. 29-37 (odd) in 1862. Nos. 39 and 41 were built by Francis Willis in 1862-3, Nos. 43-49 by Frederick Saunders in 1862, Nos. 51-57 by Edward Saunders. No. 72 Scarsdale Villas, a single house, was built by Francis Attfield in 1851 as part of his development of houses on the adjoining Earls Court Road.
