Hillgate Village (London)

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This was the northern half of the area once known as the Racks, part of the Campden House estate, which came into the possession of the Phillimore family during the 18th century.
In 1808 Joseph Phillimore sold this part of the Racks to John Jones of Harley Street, who two years later sold it on to John Johnson of Horseferry Road, Westminster, at what appears to have been a slight loss.
Johnson used most of his land as a brickfield, while encouraging speculative building around the perimeter. Few houses were at first built – and most of those that were have not survived.
The general financial slump slowed the rate of development here as elsewhere, and building did not pick up until 1850 when the lease on the brickfield was due to expire and the lessee, Joseph Clutterbuck, entered into an agreement with the Johnsons to develop the land.
What is now Hillgate Village was almost entirely constructed in the decade after 1850. Dozens of different contractors were involved, most of them building only a few houses each. The resulting housing development has a high degree of unity despite a large number of builders being involved, the duration of the development and the untimely death of Clutterbuck.
The Village consists generally of simple two and three storey brick and stucco terraces of houses that have a strong visual coherence.
The development was approximately rectangular but the original properties in the north-east corner have all been replaced, primarily as a consequence of the construction of Notting Hill Gate station in 1868.
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