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Orsett Terrace, originally known as Orsett Place, is a street in the Westbourne district of the City of Westminster, in London. It runs roughly east–west between Porchester Terrace in the west and the junction of
Westbourne Bridge Westbourne Bridge is a grade II listed road bridge in the City of Westminster, London. It was built some time after 1909 for the Great Western Railway. It carries road traffic over the railway lines in and out of Paddington Station and is joine ...
and Westbourne Terrace in the east. It is crossed midway by Gloucester Terrace.


Buildings

Orsett House on the south side, an Italiante stucco villa at number 1, is grade II listed. It was designed by George Ledwell Taylor in 1843–48. The Russian political theorist
Alexander Herzen Alexander Ivanovich Herzen (russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Ге́рцен, translit=Alexándr Ivánovich Gértsen; ) was a Russian writer and thinker known as the "father of Russian socialism" and one of the main fathers of agra ...
lived there from 1860 to 1863 and a blue plaque marks the fact. Westbourne Court, a mansion block completed in 1938, is on the north side on the corner with Westbourne Bridge.Westbourne Court.
Buildington. Retrieved 6 August 2018. The long terraces on both sides at the western end of the street are both grade II listed with Historic England.


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Streets in the City of Westminster Westbourne, London Paddington {{London-road-stub