Garden Lodge, Kensington

Garden Lodge at Logan Place in Kensington, London W8 is a detached house that was built from 1908–09 for the painter Cecil Rea and his wife, the sculptor Constance Halford.

It is two-storeys high with eight bedrooms, and a pedimented studio wing with a large bay window as a notable feature.

[1] The British intelligence operative Tomás Harris and his wife Hilda moved to the house during the Second World War and hosted many MI5 and SIS employees at the property.

Bridget Cherry, writing in the 1991 London: North West edition of the Pevsner Architectural Guides described the house as "well hidden".

[4] In April 2023, Austin revealed to the BBC that Mercury's possessions from the house were to be sold at auction at Sotheby's in September 2023.

After Freddie Mercury's death, the outer wall of Garden Lodge became a shrine to the late singer