Earls Court
Nevern Place
This was part of the Edwardes Estate. Nevern Place runs west from Earls Court Road until it becomes Nevern Square. It is bisected by Templeton Place. Until 1907 it was called Fopstone Road, in 1874 Lord Kensington entered into an agreement with the builder Thomas Grange to develop about 7 acres of land including Nevern Place. Grange built Nos. 1-15 (odd) on the south side of Nevern Place, starting from Earls Court Road, in 1874-5. These are large houses in the Italianate style. They contain four main storeys and a semi basement. There are bay windows, one on top of the other, from basement to first floor. The most interesting features are the columns supporting the portico, which are like giant barley sugar sticks. The remaining four houses up to Templeton Place were built in 1876 by William Hopping, a builder from Kilburn.
Work on the north side, starting at Earls Court Road, began at about the same time. The partnership of Arthur Furneaux Taylor and Stephen Abbott Cumming, Notting Hill builders, put up the terrace which ran all the way to Templeton Place, containing Nos. 2-24 (even) Nevern Place. The houses were built in 1874-5. The houses are very similar to Grange’s houses opposite, but they have more conservative Doric porticos.
Beyond Templeton Place the houses before the street merges into Nevern Square, on the north and the south sides, were built by Robert Whittaker, from North Kensington, who built Nos. 26-34 (even) on the north and Nos. 25-35 (odd) on the south in 1874-6. They were built in a different style, with bay windows only up to ground floor level, above which is a continuous balcony with balustrades.
