Kensington
Farmer Street
Farmer Street is a short street running between Hillgate Place and Notting Hill Gate. The area itself is known as ‘Hillgate Village’. It consists of terraced Victorian cottages painted in a multitude of colours.
The east side of the street consists of two storeys plus basement but the houses on the west side are larger, consisting of three-storeys plus basement.
At the end of the street there is the long-established Geales Fish Restaurant.
You should read the history of the Racks to the point where William Johnson and Joseph Clutterbuck began turning what had been a brickfield into a residential area.
Clutterbuck died in about 1851 having made a start on development, using other builders to carry out the work. William Johnson continued selling off plots. Over 200 houses were built in the following decade, with a large number of individual builders constructing a few houses each.
Clutterbuck, or builders appointed by him, were responsible for the construction of houses in Farmer Street (formerly Farm Street).
Most of the houses in this area were put in multiple occupation and it was really close to being a slum.
