Decorating Kensington Park Gardens

Kensington Park Gardens is one of Notting Hill's most distinguished residential streets, developed in the 1850s and 1860s as part of the Ladbroke Estate with grand stucco-fronted semi-detached and detached villas arranged along a leafy, wide thoroughfare. The street is flanked by private communal gardens and its properties represent some of the finest examples of Italianate Victorian stucco architecture in London, with elaborate pilastered porticos, balustraded rooflines, and generous bay windows. The street falls within the Ladbroke Conservation Area.

The large stucco-fronted villas of Kensington Park Gardens require experienced decorators familiar with multi-storey scaffold access and high-quality masonry paint systems capable of achieving the crisp, bright white or off-white finishes that are traditional on the Ladbroke Estate. Elaborate plaster details, cornices, and pilasters demand careful cutting in and brush application rather than spray methods.