Kensington
Sheffield Terrace
Sheffield Terrace runs between Campden Hill Road and Kensington Church Street and is on a slight slope. On the north side of the western end are some very large three-storey houses, some of which are detached.
No. 58 (which has a ‘blue plaque’ for Agatha Christie) is particularly outstanding. It is set well back from the road with two carved animals above the front entrance.
The middle section on the north side consists of a terrace of three and four-storey houses, all stuccoed, although No. 38 in the middle, unusually, is all brick and protrudes above the terrace. All the houses have good-sized front gardens with lots of shrubbery and small trees.
On the south side there is a terrace of red-brick five-storey Edwardian buildings, consisting of flats. There are three or four steps up to the entrance doors but otherwise they abut immediately on to the pavement.
Sheffield Terrace was part of the Pitt Estate.
William Eales, a timber merchant, and Jeremiah Little, a builder, both from St Marylebone had the building lease to develop most of the Pitt Estate, granted by Steven Pitt in 1844. (The terms are dealt with in the history of the Pitt Estate.) They built houses in Sheffield Terrace.
Nos. 8-14 (even) were knocked down to make way for the District and Metropolitan Railway and Jeremiah Little built new houses over the completed site in 1871. Nos. 31-39 (odd) were demolished after the last war.
