Phillimore Place


Phillimore Place is a street in Kensington, London.
Phillimore Place runs from its junction with Phillimore Gardens in the south-west to Argyll Road in the north-east.
Phillimore Place formed part of the Phillimore estate, inherited by William Phillimore in 1779. The late Georgian houses were built from 1788 to 1816, largely designed by William Porden.
, 1901–1908
The author Kenneth Grahame lived at no.16 from 1901 to 1908, and there is a blue plaque there in his honour.
In 1955, Bernard Williams, Shirley Williams, Helge Rubinstein and Hilary Rubinstein, bought a four-storey, seven-bedroom house in the street for £6,800, and lived there together for 14 years.