Tickets Alert: Behind the scenes tours of Leighton House

A few minutes from Kensington High Street is a remarkable artist’s home, and while it’s undergoing restoration works, there are tours of the building. Leighton House, was custom built in the 1860s for the artist, Sir Frederic Leighton with a huge studio space and rooms for entertaining. It’s a mansion based on an Italian palazzo, austere and plain on the outside, but a festival of decoration inside.
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