Ilchester Place
street in London, England
Ilchester Place is a street in the Holland Park area of Kensington, West London, England.
Formerly known as Holland Lane, Ilchester Place was completed in 1928, designed by Leonard Martin (1869–1935).
Ilchester Place runs from Abbotsbury Road to the west, turning south to join Melbury Road. Large expensive houses on the north side of the street back onto Holland Park itself. In December 2021, it was named the sixth most expensive street in the UK, with an average house price of £16.3 million.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ilchester Place” is street in London, England. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Ilchester, Place and street, not as a finished interpretation.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q110269257. Authority coordinates are 51.500, -0.204. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1928, 1869, 1935 and 2021.
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