Decorating Craven Hill

Craven Hill is a broad residential street in Bayswater connecting Bayswater Road to the quieter streets around Lancaster Gate, developed in the mid-Victorian period with substantial stucco-fronted terraces that reflect the ambitions of the developers who built out this part of the Paddington Estate. The street is lined with imposing four- and five-storey terraces, many now converted into flats and small hotels, that retain their original classical facades with pilastered doorways and decorative first-floor balconies. Craven Hill sits between Hyde Park to the east and the leafy residential streets of Craven Hill Gardens to the west.

The large stucco terraces of Craven Hill present significant scaffolding and access challenges for exterior repainting, with facades typically requiring full crack filling and flexible masonry paint systems to manage movement across multiple floors. Many properties have been converted into flats or hotels, requiring careful coordination of decoration works around occupied tenants and guests.