Kensington
Eldon Road
Eldon Road runs west of the southern end of Victoria Road and is a particularly quiet street with very large family houses.
There is a blue plaque to Edward Henry Corbould 1815-1905, art tutor to the children of Queen Victoria, who lived in the very attractive large red brick house on the eastern end of the street.
The houses are mainly four storeys plus basement with small front gardens. The southern side is of a uniform appearance whereas the northern side has more varied architecture. Some of the houses also have off-street parking with attractive small trees in the front gardens. They are mainly stuccoed, painted in different shades of pink, yellow and grey and the street has a particularly open and light feeling to it.
Eldon Road was part of the Vallotton Estate.
Henry Holland, a Greenwich builder, had the contract in 1851 to build a terrace of sixteen houses on the south side of Eldon Road. Nos. 1-8 were quickly built. But in 1852 Holland went bankrupt. Nos. 9-16 were taken over by James Farmer, a Westminster builder, and completed in 1852. The houses were designed in the Italianate style. First floor windows are designed as pairs of arches with a triple window at third floor level. A balcony runs along the façade at first floor level. The ground floor has canted bays.
On the north side, Nos. 17-25 were built by David Howell in 1852. But Howell got into financial difficulties and Nos. 26-29 were taken over by Ambrose Crowshaw, a builder from Upper Holloway. These houses had brick facades with prominent cornices above the third floor.
