Royal Crescent, London

Between the facing terraces is a landscaped communal garden with expansive lawns and numerous trees.

The houses themselves are stucco fronted and are built on four floors, with porticoed entrances, above which are small first-floor balconies with iron railings.

Designed in 1839, The Royal Crescent is one of the most architecturally interesting Nineteenth Century developments in Holland Park.

[1] The stucco fronted crescent is painted white, in the style of the many Nash terraces which can be seen elsewhere in London's smarter residential areas.

The Mews is a part-cobbled cul-de-sac off Queensdale Road in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

A postcard showing Royal Crescent, circa 1900
The same view of Royal Crescent in October 2009