'The Real World: London' House

You are standing near eighteen Powis Terrace in the Notting Hill neighborhood. This unassuming building served as the filming location for the fourth season of the reality television series The Real World in nineteen ninety-five. It remains the only time in the show's long history that a season was filmed within the United Kingdom. The property is a six thousand square foot, three-story townhouse that was renovated specifically to house seven strangers for five months of filming. While the cameras have long since moved on, the building has since transitioned into more permanent creative use. It has served as a studio space for the celebrated London author Nick Hornby, whose works often capture the same urban culture that defined the neighborhood during the mid-nineties.