The blue door from the film is at 280 Westbourne Park Road. The terraces around it are painted stucco, four and five storeys.
What Notting Hill looks like
Notting Hill is stucco terraces, four and five storeys, built through the middle of the nineteenth century. Most of them are painted. Several of the streets curve, and a number of them run around private communal gardens that the houses back onto.
Whole terraces are painted in pale pinks, yellows and blues. The paint is kept up rather than left to weather.
runs north to south through the middle. The south end is antiques dealers. The middle is fruit and vegetable stalls. Under the Westway at the north end it turns into secondhand clothes and records. Saturday is the busiest day by a distance.
is further north, past the Westway. It has its own market and a Portuguese and Moroccan strip of cafes and shops. It is plainer than Portobello and less photographed.
and the streets around it are quieter and more uniform, with communal gardens behind the houses.
is the blue door house from Notting Hill. It belonged to Richard Curtis, who wrote the film. The door on the street now is not the original.
Films shot in Notting Hill
Most of Notting Hill was shot on and the streets around it.
Two Richard Curtis films, four streets apart
Both use the same few blocks as an ordinary place people live in, and both put the scene everyone remembers on a doorstep.
Will's house is , which belonged to the film's writer Richard Curtis. Behind the door is a large house rather than the flat in the film, which was built in a studio. The original blue door was later auctioned for charity. The scene on YouTube
Much of the filming took place on . The director Roger Michell worried that Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts turning up on the first day would bring the street to a halt. The scene on YouTube
The cue card scene at Juliet's door was shot in St Luke's Mews off All Saints Road. The mews is a short cobbled row of low houses painted in pale colours. It is a working street with residents in it. The scene on YouTube
What Notting Hill can double for
Notting Hill can stand in for a European city street.
