Knightsbridge Living
Walton Place
This road runs between the south west corner of Harrods and Walton Street. The houses on the north side are mainly three storey white stucco houses plus basement with small front gardens at the front. On the south side is a church, part of which was recently converted into residential accommodation. Unusually, attached to the church is a Ministry for Artists. The street is particularly convenient for Harrods.
Walton Place consists of two almost identical terraces on either side of the road. The terrace on the Harrods side contains Nos. 1-9 and the terrace opposite contains Nos. 10-18. The houses are set back from the street and have a front garden, in most cases paved over. All the houses have stuccoed facades.
The street railings are of the Georgian spearhead variety, with the occasional Grecian urn in place of the spearhead (which look to be modern). A more ornate original railing surrounds most of the basement areas.
The ground floor is almost at street level, with the main door set in a restrained porch with square pillars topped with a floral decoration, on which is a beam with a bare cornice. There are fan lights above the main doors. There is a single main window which opens onto a small railed balcony cantilevered over the area.
The first, second and third floors have two windows apiece which, like the ground floor window, are sunk behind the face of the building without architrave. The first floor windows are the tallest and open onto a railed balcony running along the front of the entire terrace and partially supported on the porch of each house. There is a cornice with dentils between the second and third floors and a further moulding above the third floor at the base of the parapet wall along the top of the terrace.
The end houses of each terrace – 1 and 9 and 10 and 18 - project a few feet forward and have quoins on each side. The first floor balcony in front of the houses in between these end houses stops at the projection, and the end houses have their own separate balconies.
