Decorating Turpentine Lane

Turpentine Lane is a short residential mews-style street in Pimlico, SW1V, located close to Tachbrook Street Market and running between Moreton Street and Passmore Street. It consists of modest Victorian workers' cottages and later twentieth-century infill housing, giving it a more informal character than the grander Cubitt-designed streets nearby. The lane's name is thought to derive from the trades once associated with this working-class corner of Pimlico before the area's post-war gentrification.

The compact rendered and brick cottages of Turpentine Lane are suited to flexible masonry paint systems that accommodate slight movement in the modest Victorian construction, with modern microseal coatings increasingly popular for their weatherproofing performance. Interior decorating projects here typically involve refreshing entire properties to contemporary standards, including feature walls, built-in joinery painting, and prep work for rental or resale presentation.