THE NAME
A longer chain of connection than a quiet street in SW5 suggests.
The Marloes takes its name from the crescent it lives on. And the crescent takes its name from Marloes — a coastal village in Pembrokeshire, chosen by a Victorian surveyor honouring the landholding roots of the Barons Kensington, who once owned this land.
That is a considerable chain of connection for a residential address in Earls Court. We rather like it. Names with stories tend to belong to places with character — and character, in our experience, is not something you can specify on a brief.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
Three things we
refuse to compromise on.
Apartment
Properly equipped. Genuinely comfortable.
Handcrafted wool-and-silk mattresses. A full Bosch kitchen. European oak flooring. Curated art from working European artists. The Ruark radio on the counter. Fruit, fresh milk, butter and eggs from a local Somerset farm to welcome you.
Street
London without the noise.
Philbeach Gardens is a residential crescent in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Five minutes to Earls Court station. Fifteen minutes on foot to the Natural History Museum, the V&A, the Science Museum. Quieter than it has any right to be.
People
Present when it matters.
A staffed front desk, every day of the year. A personalised message before you arrive. A weekly-restocked pantry. People who pay attention and sort things out when they need sorting — without making a production of it.
Established
Victorian terrace, Philbeach Gardens
Borough
Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea
Configurations
Studio, one, two and three bedroom
Front Desk
Staffed every day, all year round
THE BUILDING
Once a family
home. Still feels like one.
The building at 57–59 Philbeach Gardens is a Victorian terrace on a garden crescent — the kind of address that has always been residential, and still is. There are no branded signs at street level. No automatic doors. No lobby with a check-in desk and a rack of tourist maps.
What there is: a front door, a person behind it, and apartments that have been put together with some care. The kind of space that feels right without quite being able to say why.