Current Occupants
Current occupiers and residents include:
East side of Kensington Palace Gardens:
- 1-3 — Demolished. Now a coach park on Bayswater Road.
- 4-5 — Embassy of Russia - consular department
- 6-7 — Embassy of Russia - chancery 51°30′25.49″N 0°11′26.71″W / 51.5070806°N 0.1907528°W / 51.5070806; -0.1907528
- 8 — Sub-divided private residence
- 9 — Official residence of the High Commissioner from India
- 10 — Jonathan Hunt, founder of Foxtons
- 11 — Official residence of the Ambassador of France
- 12 — Saudi royal family
- 12a — Embassy of Nepal
- 13 — Official residence of the Ambassador of Russia
- 14 — Official residence of the Ambassador of Finland
- 15 — Leonard Blavatnik (Double plot) Building completed in 1855 and first occupied by the Victorian merchant and philanthropist George Moore who moved in with his first wife Eliza Moore née Ray in 1856.
- 15b — Leonard Blavatnik
West side of Kensington Palace Gardens:
- 15a — Leonard Blavatnik
- 18-19 — Lakshmi Mittal, 51°30′25.41″N 0°11′29.80″W / 51.5070583°N 0.191611°W / 51.5070583; -0.191611, Bird's eye view
Previous occupants: Baron de Reuter, founder of the news agency in the 1850s; John Leech, Punch artist; The de Rothschild family (early 1900s); The Free Poles (1939–45); David Khalili, dealer in Islamic art; Bernie Ecclestone, Formula 1 chief.
- 20 — Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei. The number eight can be seen on the roof, symbolizing the phrase Ba Shi Fa Cai" ("the number eight brings prosperity"). 51°30′27.38″N 0°11′30.68″W / 51.5076056°N 0.1918556°W / 51.5076056; -0.1918556 (#20 - Sultan of Brunei)
- 21 — Embassy of Lebanon
- 22 — Official residence of the Ambassador of Kuwait
- 23 — Official residence of the Ambassador of Japan
- 24 — Official residence of the Ambassador of Saudi Arabia
- 25 — Embassy of Slovakia
- 26-30 — Embassy of the Czech Republic
Palace Green
- 2 — Embassy of Israel 51°30′11.24″N 0°11′22.43″W / 51.5031222°N 0.1895639°W / 51.5031222; -0.1895639
- 3 — Residence of the late Hasib Sabbagh.
- 4 — Embassy of Romania 51°30′14.36″N 0°11′23.85″W / 51.5039889°N 0.1899583°W / 51.5039889; -0.1899583
- 6 — Noam Gottesman, hedge-fund trader. Said to have now been sold to Lakshmi Mittal for £117 million, for the use of his son Aditya. Sale said to have later fallen through.
- 9a — Former Embassy of the Philippines. Sold to Lakshmi Mittal for £70 million in 2008, for his daughter Vanisha. 51°30′18.81″N 0°11′26.71″W / 51.505225°N 0.1907528°W / 51.505225; -0.1907528
- 10 — Official residence of the Ambassador of Norway.
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