Kensington Living
St Ann’s Villas
St Ann’s Villas leads into Royal Crescent. It’s is a busy road, but it is pleasantly tree-lined.
There are some unusual 3-storey detached houses, constructed in brown brick, of Victorian Gothic design.
In the section of the street between Royal Crescent and Queensdale Road, Charles Stewart put up terraces on either side of the street in 1843: Nos. 2-10 (even) on the east side and Nos. 1-9 (odd) on the west side. Each terrace contained five houses The houses were four storeys high and were built in the same style as Royal Crescent.
In 1845 Stewart began work on the next section, between Queensdale Road and St James’s Gardens. Each side contained six pairs of houses: Nos. 11-33 on the west and Nos. 12-34 on the east side of the road. The style was Tudor-Gothic. Red and blue bricks were used with Bath stone for the quoins and window mullions.
