Escorts in W2: from a Bayswater terrace to your door

Six bells on one front door

Very few of the big Bayswater houses are still one household. Most are divided into flats, with a row of bells by the front door and often a basement flat of its own down the area steps below the pavement. Around Porchester Square, Leinster Square, Kensington Gardens Square and Princes Square the residents share a garden behind railings, opened with a key, and many of the houses facing it are flats.

A W2 address is therefore usually a flat as well as a number, and sometimes a separate entrance under the front steps.

The mews behind

Behind the big houses run the mews, built as stables and coach houses and long since turned into homes, many with a garage door where the carriage once went in. Bathurst Mews still keeps horses that are ridden out into Hyde Park, which is as close as W2 comes to the country. A mews house is a front door of its own, which suits a quiet evening, but its entrance is off a larger street and worth describing.

A villa, a plaque and a water garden

People have been inventing ways to live here for two centuries. At 3 and 5 Porchester Terrace the garden writer John Claudius Loudon built a pair of houses in the 1820s made to look like one villa, among the first semi-detached houses in London. Guglielmo Marconi lodged at 71 Hereford Road, where a blue plaque says so. And off the Edgware Road the Water Gardens are 1960s flats and maisonettes set around raised pools, a whole estate planned as a quiet place to come home to. W2 escorts visit every kind of home on the same terms.

How a visit to a private address goes

The one check Iris makes is in writing: the street, the door number and, in a building of flats, the flat. Nothing else is asked and nothing is kept beyond the booking. She is usually with you about an hour after Iris confirms, longer at rush hour, with the exact time in the chat and every length on the rates; the steps are on booking.