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Kelso Place, LONDON, W8 5QP

Situated in South End Row W8 5BS, this TE has the code WRKGDN and used to have WEStern numbers until the late 1960s. It now provides telephone and broadband services to 6,073 residential and 575 non-residential premises in the Kensington Gardens area using 0207-937, 938 xxxx numbers and some other numbers allocated to Inner London.

Four smart villas divided into semis, and dating from 1851-2. "George Smith Stredder built fifteen houses, which were a mixture of detached and semi-detached, known as Stanford Villas." http://www.barrettssolicitors.co.uk/Kensington/streets/stanford_road.htm . "They have stock-brick fronts neatly outlined with continuous bands of diamond relief quoins and deep bands of frieze, now lacking eaves brackets and ground-floor window entablatures for all but Nos. 32–34. The arched-headed doors with pilastered cases are set well back from the road". From: 'Kensington New Town', Survey of London: volume 42: Kensington Square to Earl's Court (1986), pp. 130-150. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50314 Date accessed: 18 August 2009. A diagram of numbers 32-34, the villa behind the red car, also appears here.

This archway at the end of Cornwall Gardens leads into mews behind. When the square was developed from 1866-79 it would have led to servants' quarters and coach houses; now the mews are expensive residences.

The left-hand of this pair of archways at the western end of Image also appears in Image

The owner went for this interesting look apparently to get back at neighbours who had objected to her application to demolish the building and replace with a new house including a two-storey basement. Since it stands in a conservation area, Kensington and Chelsea Council has since demanded she return it to its original state. The trend of excavating basements (creating so-called "iceberg homes") among London's super-rich has reached such a scale in K&C that the council has recently limited them to a single storey and banned them altogether from listed buildings.

The red and white candy striped facade of this property Image has been replaced with something altogether more attractive. Not! Far more interesting than the old 'spite wall' approach Image, but who'd want to be a neighbour?

Smart apartments on the south side of Kensington.

Seen from Stanford Road. The impressive houses on Cornwall Gardens were built between 1862 and 1876. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50315