Leighton House
The former home and studio of Victorian painter Frederic Leighton in Holland Park, built around an elaborate tiled Arab Hall inspired by his travels through the Middle East.
- Museum
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Did you know
The Arab Hall, added between 1877 and 1881, cost more to build than the rest of the house combined and was designed by architect George Aitchison around a wall of antique tiles Leighton collected in Damascus, Turkey and Iran, topped with a golden dome.
Local tip
Look up in the Arab Hall rather than only at the tiled walls, the gilded dome and the small fountain at the room's centre are easy to miss if you focus on eye-level detail.
Finding it
- Address
- Leighton House Museum, 12 Holland Park Road, London W14 8LZ
- Nearest station
- Kensington (Olympia) (Tube), 487 m away
Details change, so check with the place before you set off.
More places nearby
- Design MuseumA free museum of product, industrial, graphic and architectural design, housed since 2016 in the restored former Commonwealth Institute building in Kensington.
- Safestay London Kensington Holland ParkA hostel occupying the surviving East Wing of Holland House, a Grade I-listed Jacobean mansion set inside Holland Park itself.
- Linley Sambourne HouseThe preserved Kensington home of Punch cartoonist Linley Sambourne, its dense Victorian interiors filled with William Morris wallpapers, stained glass and Chinese porcelain.
- Kyoto Garden, Holland ParkA Japanese garden with a waterfall and koi pond, gifted to Holland Park by the Chamber of Commerce of Kyoto in 1991.