W11, W2
Notting Hill
Stucco terraces, garden squares and Portobello Road
Average sale price
£2.15m
Average rent
£5,100 pcm
Price per sq ft
£1,650
Change in a year
+0.9%
Pastel-painted terraces, private communal gardens and the Portobello Road market, between Holland Park and Westbourne Grove.
Notting Hill's terraces were built in the 1840s and 1850s for a smart suburb that never quite arrived, which is how so many of them came to back on to private communal gardens. Today those gardens are the area's real luxury, and a house with a gate into one sells at a clear premium.
Buyers choose between the wide stucco houses around Ladbroke Square and Lansdowne Road, the colourful terraces off Portobello Road, and the mews behind them, which offer a house for the price of a large flat. Lateral apartments in converted stucco houses around Holland Park are the other mainstay.
Saturdays belong to the Portobello Road market. Westbourne Grove and Kensington Park Road handle the rest of the week, and Holland Park is a ten-minute walk for anyone who needs more space than the garden square.
Best for
Communal gardens
Mews houses
International buyers
Commute
15 min to Oxford Circus
Living here
Day to day in Notting Hill
Getting around
Notting Hill Gate and Holland Park stations
Ladbroke Grove on the Hammersmith & City
Elizabeth line at Paddington
Schools
Thomas's Kensington
Fox Primary
Holland Park School
Parks and open space
Holland Park and the Kyoto Garden
Kensington Gardens
Private communal garden squares
Eat and drink
Portobello Road market
Westbourne Grove
Kensington Park Road
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