Kensington
Holland Street
Holland Street runs between Kensington Church Street and Hornton Street. It is a narrow street forming part of the original village of Kensington, with a mixture of small shops and some very old Georgian-style houses on three to four storeys with small front gardens. Most of the houses are brick-faced and the street has a very ‘villagey’ feel although it is no more than a couple of minutes walk of Kensington High Street. You could almost be in a small village in the countryside.
There is a lot of greenery and, as well as having the attractive Elephant and Castle pub, it has some interesting specialist antique shops and a delightful neighbourhood restaurant called The Terrace which has a lovely small outside-patio at the front.
The end of Gordon Place is on the south side of the street, leading to a delightful footpath fronted on either side by terraces of Victorian houses, each with their own small front garden and a profusion of shrubs and small trees. To add to the atmosphere is an old sloping gas-style street lamp painted in the traditional green colour and engraved in gold with ‘KV’. On the south side of Holland Street are some small mews containing some small attractive specialist shops. The western end of Holland Street has a terrace of rather unusual three-storey white stucco houses on the north side, each with a protruding entrance.
