View of 1-14 Ossington Street, Notting Hill, looking south towards Notting Hill Gate/Bayswater Road. A nineteenth-century, two-storey brick terrace with stucco at the ground floor. Some of the houses have wooden shutters at the sash windows, and there are a variety of different canopies over the arched front doors. The flat roofs have high chimneys and there are railings around the basement areas. The lamppost in the foreground bears a ‘Parking, permit holders only’ sign. Number 1, in the distance, has an estate agent’s ‘For Sale’ sign. The large building on the corner in the background is a public house, and across the road is the wall of Kensington Palace Gardens. A lady pushing a shopping trolley is walking towards the camera. The parked cars include a soft top sports car, a car with a roof rack, and a Mini. An open-backed lorry is at the road junction waiting to turn the corner.
Ossington Street forms part of the border between the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, with the east side of the street belonging to Westminster and the west side to Kensington; therefore this is a view of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea side. Although it cannot be seen in the photograph, interestingly, on the corner by the lorry is an old boundary stone on the pavement with this inscription ‘No. 16 M. B. P. 1900 In the centre of the two roads opposite is the boundary of Paddington’. The houses to the right of this terrace can be seen on image number 85786.