23-24 Leinster Gardens

Leinster Gardens is a street in Bayswater, London. It is lined with tall, ornate, mid-Victorian terraced houses, many of which are listed buildings.

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Type: Tourist attraction
Description: houses 23 and 24 on Leinster Gardens, London; The false houses hide a short area of uncovered tracks.
Also known as: “Fake houses” and “Fake houses on Leinster Gardens, London”
Address: 23-24 Leinster Terrace, London, W2 3AN

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include London Paddington railway station and Kensington Gardens.

London Paddington railway station

Railway station

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London Paddington is a main line and tube station complex on Praed Street, Paddington, London, which has been the main terminus for the Great Western Railway and successors since 1838. London Paddington railway station is situated 2,200 feet northeast of 23-24 Leinster Gardens.

Kensington Gardens

Park

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Kensington Gardens, once part of the private gardens of Kensington Palace, are now among the Royal Parks of London and largely open to the public. The gardens are shared by the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and sit immediately to the west of Hyde Park, in west London.

Royal Albert Hall

Theater building

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The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, England. It has a seating capacity of 5,272. Since the hall's opening by Queen Victoria in 1871, the world's leading artists from many performance genres have appeared on its stage. Royal Albert Hall is situated 1 mile south of 23-24 Leinster Gardens.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bayswater and Hallfield Estate.

Bayswater

Suburb

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Bayswater is an area in the City of Westminster. It is a built-up district with a population density of 17,500 per square kilometre, and is located between Kensington Gardens to the south, Paddington to the north-east, and Notting Hill to the west.

Hallfield Estate

Neighborhood

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The Hallfield Estate is one of several modernist housing projects in Bayswater, City of Westminster, and was designed in the immediate postwar period by the Tecton architecture practice, led by Berthold Lubetkin.