Phillimore Place

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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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol37/pp58-76|title=The Phillimore estate | British History Online|website=www.british-history.ac.uk}} The late Georgian houses were built from 1788 to 1816, largely designed by William Porden.

File:Kenneth Grahame 16 Phillimore Place blue plaque.jpg, 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.

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Category:Streets in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea