As posh as it gets in London, Kensington is about staggering wealth, boutiques, rows of elegant townhouses, a royal palace and lots of European embassies. Kensington is also a cultural quarter extraordinaire, with three of the UK’s best museums on a single street.
This area of London is dripping with famous places, Buckingham Palace, Knightsbridge, Kensington Palace, Holland Park, Kensington Gardens, Royal Albert Hall, Hyde Park and Notting Hill to name a few. Part of the affluent borough of Kensington, Holland Park is a unique corner of central London. With its grand houses, clean lines and a country-estate feel, it combines urban amenities with spacious living. The living green heart of the area is the eponymous park: 22.5 hectares including abundant woodland, sports and play facilities, and a beautiful Japanese garden. But Holland Park’s peaceful feel doesn’t mean it’s far from the action. Bordered by bustling Kensington High Street to the south and Notting Hill to the north, it’s a short walk from Portobello Road, and Hyde Park is just across the way.
Cadogan Lane, originally Little Cadogan Place, is a street in London’s Belgravia which runs between Pont Street in the north, and a junction with Cadogan Place and D’Oyley Street in the south. It is one of the streets in the area named after the Earls of Cadogan that began to be developed in 1777. The lane was laid-out by 1799 but had few buildings until the twentieth century. Today it is mostly made up of small mews houses which back onto the larger houses in Cadogan Place, and Chesham Place and Chesham Street, between which Cadogan Lane runs.
Cadogan Lane is a part-cobbled through road between Cadogan Place and Pont Street, with an additional cul-de-sac section the opposite side of Pont Street in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, parallel to Pavilion Road which also contains original/ surviving Mews buildings. Cadogan Lane contains 68 properties used for a mixture of residential and commercial purposes.
The two and three storey properties have rendered or painted brickwork facades with a variety of mansard, pitched and parapet roof styles, surrounded by a tarmacadam and cobbled road surface and raised pavements. There are both intact and converted garages present in the Mews, and parking is restricted.
Originally the stable/ coach house accommodation for the main houses on Cadogan Place, the primary purpose of the Mews properties is now residential though some commercial activity still takes place. Before and since 2003 there have been many planning applications made for alterations to the properties in the Mews, most notably; single storey extensions, changes to the fenestration and basement excavations. Conservation Area controls apply to any new development in the Mews.
Cadogan Lane is a quiet street at the back of Cadogan Place, a short walk from both Sloane Square (Circle and District lines) and Knightsbridge (Piccadilly line). The house comes furnished or unfurnished with a garage, off street parking and access to the highly sought after Cadogan Place gardens (tennis courts).
