Notting Hill is located in London’s Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and is probably one of London’s most famous areas. And upon visiting, you’ll immediately see why. It’s the home to the popular Portobello Road Market, it’s got amazing restaurants, pubs and nightlife, and it has been the filming location of various movies! Additionally, it’s home to many colorful houses.
Naturally, the colorful houses in Notting Hill are very popular Instagram spots. So this guide will take you through all the places where you’ll find colorful houses in Notting Hill for the perfect Instagram photos! I’ve also included a map that you can add to your Google Maps for easy navigation!
Don’t have time to read everything? You can easily get access to the map below! Save it to your Google Maps and use it to navigate all the colorful houses in Notting Hill that are mentioned in this guide!
How to Get to Notting Hill
By London Underground (The Tube)
The closest station to Notting Hill is Notting Hill Gate Underground Station. You can get to this station via the Central, Circle and District Lines. Also, Ladbroke Grove Underground Station is pretty close to Notting Hill, and you can reach it via the Circle and Hammersmith & City Lines.
If you’re not sure how to get to Notting Hill Gate or Ladbroke Grove Station from your specific location, I would highly recommend planning your journey on the TFL Go or Citymapper app!
By Bus
If you’re planning on getting to Notting Hill by bus, the routes that go there are 27, 28, 31, 52, 70, 94, 148, 328 and 452. But if you’re unsure what bus routes to take, download the TFL Go or Citymapper app to see the best way to get there from your specific location!
Where to Find Colorful Houses in Notting Hill
Now that we’ve covered how to get to Notting Hill, here are all the places where you’ll find the beautiful colorful houses! Just a reminder: please remember to be respectful and not disturb the residents of these houses!
1. Uxbridge Street
After leaving Notting Hill Gate Underground Station, turn left and walk down Notting Hill Gate Road until you find a side street called Campden Hill Road. Continue walking down, and you’ll end up on Uxbridge Street. Right next to the local pub, The Uxbridge Arms, you’ll find a row of houses with pastel facades. And not only are the exterior walls colorful, but the doors are too! The bold colors of the doors contrasting with the pastel exterior walls are a beauty!
2. Farm Place, Hillgate Place and Callcot Street
As you walk down Uxbridge Street, you’ll pass 4 side streets that create a rectangular loop. These are Farm Place, Callcot Street, Hillgate Street, Farmer Street and Jameson Street, with Hillgate Place connecting them together. But the prettiest streets out of these (in my opinion) are Farm Place, Hillgate Place, and Callcot Street. Farm Place has a beautiful mixture of pastel and boldly colored houses. Meanwhile, Hillgate Place and Collcot Street have rows of houses with only a pastel facade. These streets are pretty quiet during the daytime too, so going here to take some photos, especially when it’s sunny, is perfect!
3. Portobello Road
On the north side of Notting Hill Gate Underground Station, you’ll find the majority of the colorful houses in Notting Hill. The closest to the station is Portobello Road, famous for its historical street markets. Here, you’ll find rows of market stalls in front of colorful houses as well as the brightest colorful pub and restaurant you’ll ever see, The Sun in Splendour! Some notable residents of Portobello Road include George Orwell, Damon Albarn and Stella McCartney! You can even find the George Orwell blue plaque on 22 Portobello Road!
4. Chepstow Villas
Off Portobello Road sits a side street named Chepstow Villas. Walk down, past the crossroad, and you’ll find a small row of pastel houses, each with cute little balconies also painted in pastel colors. The pastel colors are very light, to be fair, so can be easily missed. But they’re still quite pretty!
5. Denbigh Terrace
Denbigh Terrace is another road off Portobello Road, with a pretty cool color palette. You’ll find a row of houses with pink, grey, yellow and blue facades. This is probably one of the most popular blocks of colorful houses in Notting Hill, mainly due to the pink exteriors. You’ll often see people getting the perfect Instagram photo here because of how pretty the houses are as a backdrop!
6. Lonsdale Road
The houses on Lonsdale Road aren’t as bright as the previous ones mentioned, but it doesn’t mean they’re not colorful! Here you’ll find a row of houses with peach, brown, and blue facades, which I think will make a great backdrop for a photo in a bold, bright outfit!
7. Colville Terrace
Colville Terrace’s houses are painted in very light pastels. But what makes them extra cool are the porches! They’ve got roofs held by Ionic columns, making them look a little fancy!
8. Powis Gardens
From Colville Terrace, turn on Powis Square, then head to Powis Gardens. Opposite the church, you’ll see a row of houses similarly built like the houses in Colville Terrace. They also have porches with roofs held by Ionic columns and are painted in a mixture of pastels and blue/turquoise colors!
9. Westbourne Park Road
When you continue walking up Powis Gardens, you’ll reach a main street, Westbourne Park Road. This is a very long road that stretches from Ladbroke Grove to Porchester Road, near Royal Oak Underground Station. But if you reach it via Powis Gardens, you won’t need to walk far to see the colorful houses that adorn it. You’ll find a range of pretty blue, pink and purple pastel houses as well as cream and turquoise houses.
10. St Luke’s Mews
Mews are a type of alley or narrow passage with houses running on opposite sides. London is full of pretty mews, and St Luke’s Mews are one of them. If you head to All Saints Road from Westbourne Park Road and turn on the first corner, you’ll reach this pretty mews. It originally served as a stable and/or coach house accommodation for the bigger properties along Westbourne Park Road and Lancaster Road. But now they’re divided into flats.
What I especially love about St Luke’s Mews is that the houses are painted in dark, bold colors as well as light colors. My favourite is the house with a navy blue facade with yellow painted doors and window casings!
11. Lancaster Road
If you go back to All Saints Road from St Luke’s Mews and keep walking up, you’ll reach a roundabout on Lancaster Road. This is another popular location to see Notting Hill’s colorful houses.
This road has houses painted in bold colors like green, red, yellow and blue, which makes it one of the best rows of colorful houses in Notting Hill to take photos of. This road can get pretty busy though, so make sure to watch out for oncoming cars when taking photos!
12. Ladbroke Crescent
Near Ladbroke Grove Underground Station, you’ll find Ladbroke Crescent. Granted, it’s not as colorful as the previous houses mentioned, but it still has houses painted in different shades of blue along with creamy colors. If you’re wearing a bright outfit, it will contrast really well with the Ladbroke Crescent houses in the background.
13. Elgin Crescent
Elgin Crescent, originally called Elgin Road, features rows of houses dating back to the 1850s and 1860s. A few politicians used to be residents here, including the first prime minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Boris Johnson. In addition to its pretty colorful houses, this street also features a tiki bar, Trailer Happiness. Plus, the famous Notting Hill Bookshop featured in the movie Notting Hill is just around the corner!
14. Lansdowne Road
From Elgin Crescent, walk down Rosmead Road, and you’ll reach Lansdowne Road. This road probably has one of the best blocks of colorful houses in Notting Hill, in my opinion. For some reason, the houses on this road give me a Wes Anderson Grand Budapest Hotel vibe, which is probably why it’s one of my favourites.
15. Pottery Lane
Pottery Lane is a very interesting street not only for its vine-covered buildings and pastel houses but also for its history. This street forms one of London’s most fashionable and expensive neighbourhoods despite previously being a slum named “Potteries and Piggeries” due to the pig keepers and brickmakers that settled there. You’ll find a plaque on Beehive Kiln on Walmer Road, north of Pottery Lane, commemorating the history of the once-previous slum.
16. Princedale Road
Lastly, on Princedale Road, you’ll find a row of even more pastel-colored houses dating back to the 1840s!
Colorful Houses in Notting Hill Map
Now that you know where all the colorful houses in Notting Hill are, this map will help you easily navigate the area! Feel free to save this onto your Google Maps to use as you please!
Where to Find Colorful Houses in Notting Hill: Final Thoughts
From pretty pastels to bright and deep colors, spotting the colorful houses in Notting Hill is something you shouldn’t miss out on during your visit to London! Plus, they make for the best London Instagram photos too! I mean, did you really visit Notting Hill if you didn’t take a photo in front of at least one of the colorful houses?
Don’t forget to pin “Where to Find Colorful Houses in Notting Hill” for future planning!
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