Addison Road is a

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, England, which connects

Kensington High Street Kensington High Street is the main shopping street in Kensington, London, England. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. Kensington High Street is the continuation of Kensington Road and part ...

with

Notting Hill Notting Hill is a district of West London, England, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Notting Hill is known for being a wikt:cosmopolitan, cosmopolitan and multiculturalism, multicultural neighbourhood, hosting the annual Notting ...

and

Holland Park Avenue Holland Park Avenue is a street located in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in west central London. The street runs from Notting Hill Gate in the east to the Holland Park Roundabout in the west, forms a part of the old west road ...

, and runs nearby to

Holland Park Holland Park is an area of Kensington, on the western edge of Central London, that lies within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and largely surrounds its namesake park, Holland Park. Colloquially referred to as 'Millionaire's Row', ...

History and residents

The name of the road derives from the essayist and statesman

Joseph Addison Joseph Addison (1 May 1672 – 17 May 1719) was an English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was the eldest son of Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend Richard Steele, with w ...

(1672–1719), as with Addison Avenue nearby.Addison Avenue, W14

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The road was begun in the 1820s. The church of St Barnabas at No. 23 was built in 1829, designed by

Lewis Vulliamy Lewis Vulliamy (15 March 1791 – 4 January 1871) was an English architect descended from the Vulliamy family of clockmakers. Life Lewis Vulliamy was the son of the clockmaker Benjamin Vulliamy. He was born in Pall Mall, London on 15 March 17 ...

in a

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style, with later stained glass by

Edward Burne-Jones Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet, (; 28 August 183317 June 1898) was an English painter and designer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter. Burne-Jones worked with William Morris as a founding part ...

(executed by Morris & Co.) and Byam Shaw. St James Norlands Church at the far end of Addison Avenue also designed by Vulliamy, was built in 1845.

Debenham House Debenham House (or Peacock House) at 8 Addison Road is a large detached house in the Holland Park district of Kensington and Chelsea, W14. Built in the Arts and Crafts style by the architect Halsey Ricardo, it is a Grade I listed building. ...

at 8 Addison Road was designed for Sir

Ernest Debenham Sir Ernest Ridley Debenham, 1st Baronet (26 May 1865 – 25 December 1952), was an English businessman. He was responsible for the considerable expansion of the family's retail and wholesale drapery firm between 1892 and 1927. Biography Born at ...

in 1905–6 by

Halsey Ricardo Halsey Ralph Ricardo (6 August 1854 – 15 February 1928) was an English architect and designer. Family History Ricardo was born in Bath on 6 August 1854. He was a son of banker Harry Ralph Ricardo (1823–1860) and Anna Halsey (a daughter of ...

. The

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-style house is an example of "structural

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". It includes Byzanto-

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grey bricks, Doulton

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ware, green-glazed bricks, and turquoise tiles. Inside, there is a dome and Arts and Crafts decoration. From 1869 to 1916, there was an Addison Road station to the west of Addison Road itself, for a railway line that provided services between

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and

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. Addison Road is home to the

Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School is a Roman Catholic secondary school and sixth form in Holland Park, London, England, with approximately 1,030 students. History After the 1903 death of the third Archbishop of Westminster, Herbert, ...

, a Roman Catholic boys' school (which permits entry to girls in its Sixth Form).

The novelist and playwright

John Galsworthy John Galsworthy (; 14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. He is best known for his trilogy of novels collectively called '' The Forsyte Saga'', and two later trilogies, ''A Modern Comedy'' and ''End of th ...

lived at 14 Addison Road from 1905 to 1913, as did

Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, ; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Poles in the United Kingdom#19th century, Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the Eng ...

and

Radclyffe Hall Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe-Hall (12 August 1880 – 7 October 1943), more known under her pen name Radclyffe Hall, was an English poet and author, best known for the novel ''The Well of Loneliness'', a groundbreaking work in lesbian literatur ...

at other times. Other notable inhabitants have included:

Chaim Weizmann Chaim Azriel Weizmann ( ; 27 November 1874 – 9 November 1952) was a Russian-born Israeli statesman, biochemist, and Zionist leader who served as president of the World Zionist Organization, Zionist Organization and later as the first pre ...

, the first President of the State of

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, who lived at No. 67 between 1916 and 1919;

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, who resided at No. 2 between 1928 and 1936; James Locke, who is credited with giving

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its name, and the architect

Eustace Balfour Colonel Eustace James Anthony Balfour (8 June 1854 – 14 February 1911) was a London-based Scottish architect. The brother of one British Prime Minister and nephew of another, his career was built on family connections. His mother was ...

Residential properties

Debenham House, cited above, is often used for filming purposes. Although no longer privately owned, it is thought to be worth between £40–50 million. The majority of houses located on Addison Road are worth between £10–30 million, and consequently the street is one of the most expensive residential streets in the world, and the second most expensive in

(behind

Kensington Palace Gardens Kensington Palace Gardens is an exclusive street in Kensington, west of central London, near Kensington Gardens and Kensington Palace. Entered through gates at either end and guarded by sentry boxes, it was the location of the London Cage, t ...

). In 2015, a property was sold for £30 million, the most expensive in the UK that year.

Location

To the east is

. To the west is Holland Road and

West Kensington West Kensington, formerly North End, is an area in the ancient parish of Fulham, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, England, 3.4 miles (5.5 km) west of Charing Cross. It covers most of the London postal area of W14, includ ...

. A portion of the road forms part of the A3220 leading to Warwick Gardens south of the junction with

Kensington Olympia railway station Kensington (Olympia) is an interchange station between the Mildmay line of the London Overground and National Rail services operated by Southern (Govia Thameslink Railway), Southern, located in Kensington, West London. Limited services on the ...

was originally named Addison Road although it is some distance away from the road itself. St Barnabas, Kensington, is a

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church in the road.St Barnabas Addison Road, LondonA Church Near You

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* {{Commons category-inline Streets in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

History and residents

Residential properties

Location

See also

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