Addison Road, London
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in London
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, England
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, which connects Kensington High Street
Kensington High Street
Kensington High Street is the main shopping street in Kensington, west London. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London....
with Notting Hill
Notting Hill
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and Holland Park Avenue and runs nearby to Holland Park
Holland Park
Holland Park is a district and a public park in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in west central London, England.Holland Park has a reputation as an affluent and fashionable area, known for attractive large Victorian townhouses, and high-class shopping and restaurants...
.
History and residents
The name of the road derives from the essayist and statesman Joseph AddisonJoseph Addison
Joseph Addison was an English essayist, poet, playwright and politician. He was a man of letters, eldest son of Lancelot Addison...
(1672–1719), as with Addison Avenue nearby.
The road was begun in the 1820s. The church of St Barnabas at No. 23 was built in 1829, designed by Lewis Vulliamy
Lewis Vulliamy
Lewis Vulliamy was an English architect belonging to the Vulliamy family of clockmakers.-Life:Lewis Vulliamy was the son of the clockmaker Benjamin Vulliamy. He was born in Pall Mall, London on 15 March 1791, and articled to Sir Robert Smirke...
in a Tudor Gothic style.
Debenham House at 8 Addison Road was designed for Sir Ernest Debenham
Ernest Debenham
Sir Ernest Ridley Debenham, 1st Baronet , was a British businessman. He was responsible for the considerable expansion of the family's retail and wholesale drapery firm between 1892 and 1927....
in 1905–6 by Halsey Ricardo
Halsey Ricardo
Halsey Ralph Ricardo was born 1854 and died 1928. He was an architect and designer.He established his practice in 1878, and for 10 years worked in partnership with William de Morgan , for whom he designed tiles, vases, and other artefacts. He advocated the use of glazed materials to resist the...
. The Arts and Crafts
Arts and Crafts movement
Arts and Crafts was an international design philosophy that originated in England and flourished between 1860 and 1910 , continuing its influence until the 1930s...
-style house is an example of "structural polychromy". It includes Byzanto
Byzantine
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-Italianate grey bricks, Doulton
Doulton
Doulton may refer to:*Royal Doulton, ceramic manufacturing company*John Doulton, potter, founder of Royal Doulton*Henry Doulton, potter and son of John Doulton*Frederick Doulton, Member of Parliament and son of John Doulton...
Carrara
Carrara
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ware, green-glazed bricks, and turquoise tiles. Inside, there is a dome and Arts and Crafts decoration.
From 1869 to 1916, there was an Addison Road station to the west of Addison Road itself, for a railway line that provided services between Waterloo
Waterloo station
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and Richmond.
The novelist and playwright John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy OM was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter...
lived at 14 Addison Road during 1905–13. Other notable inhabitants have included Chaim Weizmann
Chaim Weizmann
Chaim Azriel Weizmann, , was a Zionist leader, President of the Zionist Organization, and the first President of the State of Israel. He was elected on 1 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952....
, the first President of the State of Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
, who lived at No. 67 between 1916–19 and David Lloyd George
David Lloyd George
David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor OM, PC was a British Liberal politician and statesman...
, who resided at No. 2 between 1928–36.
Residential properties
Debenham House, cited above, is often used for filming purposes. Although no longer privately owned, it is thought to be worth between £40-50 million.The majority of houses located on Addison Road are worth between £10-30 million, and consequently the street is one of the most expensive residential streets in the world, and the second most expensive in London
London
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(behind Kensington Palace Gardens
Kensington Palace Gardens
Kensington Palace Gardens is a street in west central London which contains some of the grandest and most expensive houses in the world. It was the location of the London Cage, the British government MI9 centre used during the Second World War and the Cold War.A tree-lined avenue half a mile long...
).
Location
To the east is Holland ParkHolland Park
Holland Park is a district and a public park in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in west central London, England.Holland Park has a reputation as an affluent and fashionable area, known for attractive large Victorian townhouses, and high-class shopping and restaurants...
. To the west is Holland Road
Holland Road
Holland Road may refer to:* Holland Road, London, United Kingdom* Holland Road, Singapore...
and West Kensington
West Kensington, London
- Commercial/education :Local business consists of small shops, offices and restaurants, with the Olympia Exhibition Centre nearby. Indeed, it is the mix of local shops that give the area its character....
.
St Barnabas, Kensington, is a Church of England
Church of England
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church in the road.