Decorating Cundy Street

Cundy Street is a modest Victorian terrace street in the southern part of Belgravia, running between Ebury Street and Lower Sloane Street within the Grosvenor Estate's extensive holdings. The street is characterised by mid-Victorian brick terraced houses of two and three storeys, more intimate in scale than the grand stucco avenues of Belgrave Square but equally well maintained under the watchful oversight of the Grosvenor Estate. It forms a quiet residential backwater close to Sloane Square and the borders of Chelsea.

The brick-fronted Victorian terraces on Cundy Street require careful assessment before any exterior decoration, as Grosvenor Estate properties are subject to estate-wide maintenance standards that specify approved paint systems and colour palettes. Internal works frequently involve period plasterwork cornices, picture rails, and original joinery in good states of preservation that benefit from specialist preparation and compatible oil-based or water-borne alkyd finishes.