The Old Court Suburb Author:Leigh Hunt Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: too high for its width, called Prince's Gate. They resemble a set of tall thin gentlemen, squeezing together to look at something over the way. The old wall c... more »ontaining their neighbour, Park House, indicates the northern boundary of the once famous Kensington or Brompton Park Nursery, which figures in the pages of the " Spectator " as the establishment of Messieurs London and Wise, the most celebrated gardeners of their time. It commenced in the reign of Charles the Second; furnished all England with plants; and is only now giving up its last green ghost before the rise of new buildings. CHAPTER III. KENSINGTON GOBE MODEHN—MBS INCHBALD— COUNT D'obsay—Wilkes And JTiNitrs (sib Philip Fbancis). We have said that Kensington Gore, in Red Books and Directories, is understood to begin at Kingston (or Ennismore) House. And such is the case. But as the only rows of houses, till of late years, that is to say, of houses in actual conjunction, were that which you pass just before reaching the Cabinet Exhibition, and another lower down the road, the former of these rows is still inscribed, " Kensington Gore," and is the spot emphatically so called. It is also, to distinguish it from the other, sometimes called the Upper Gore. We notice it the more particularly, because it is remarkable, among other respects, for its style of building. It consists but of five houses, four of which are faced with white stucco, all of them very small, and los. 2 and 3 apparently consisting but of one room (a drawing-room) with six windows. Yet they have an air of elegance, and even of distinction. They look as if they had been intended for the out-houses, or lodge, of some great mansion which was never built; and as if, upon the failure of that project, they had been divided into apartments for reta...« less