Residences in historic building near Kensington Palace put up for sale in London
Sales have begun in London of six premium residences at One Palace Green, located next to Kensington Palace. Prices start at £15 million. The building overlooking the palace gardens was constructed in 1870; developer Redd Real Estate spent five years renovating it, The National reports.
Historic building near the palace
The 19,200-square-foot property is Grade II listed, so alterations to its appearance were strictly limited. During the restoration, the developers used archival images to recreate original features and remove changes made when the building was used as offices.
One Palace Green is located next to the Israeli Embassy, while the residences of the French and Norwegian ambassadors are nearby. The street leads into Kensington Palace Gardens, where heightened security measures are in place: photography nearby is prohibited, and entry from Kensington High Street is controlled by guarded barriers.
The Prince and Princess of Wales have an apartment at Kensington Palace, which is their official London home, although the couple’s primary residence is in Windsor. Prince Harry and Meghan also lived on the palace grounds after their marriage, as did Diana, Princess of Wales, after her divorce from Prince Charles.
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Legacy of an artistic circle
Originally, the house was the London home of landscape painter and politician George Howard, who later became the 9th Earl of Carlisle, and his wife Rosalind. The Howard family belonged to the Holland Park Circle, a group of artists, architects and patrons that was an important centre of Victorian artistic life in west London.
The Arts and Crafts-style building was designed by Philip Webb. He adapted the upper floors into bright spaces that could serve as an artist’s studio or gallery rather than traditional servants’ rooms.
Five apartments and a carriage house
The complex consists of five apartments and a carriage house. The interiors retain a restored fireplace, arches, historic decorative details and a dining room with an ornamented ceiling, gilded panels and inscriptions from William Morris’s poem “Earthly Paradise”. George Howard’s former studio has been converted into a living room with a 4.5-metre-high ceiling.
The project also includes private parking, concierge service, property management, landscaped gardens and a ground-source heating and cooling system for the entire site. No gas is supplied to the complex.
