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| English Heritage Reference: | 422086 |
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| RBKC Reference: | 249-/35/12 |
| Property: | 16, 18 AND 18A MELBURY ROAD 16, 18 AND 18A |
| Street: | MELBURY ROAD , W14 |
| Date: | 07/11/1984 |
| Grade: | II |
| Grouped: | GV |
| Description: | Pair of semi-detached houses with studio. Houses dated 1877, the studio completed before 1893, by William Turner - a Chelsea builder. Brick in Flemish bond with painted-cement, rubbed and cut brick dressings. Tiled roofs. Three storeys with attic dormers; outer ranges of elevation project to terminate in Dutch scrolled gables filled with large transomed window; two-storey rectangular porch to side of each. High brick stacks behind these and on party wall. Four-window range to recessed centre, each house with a tall dormer complete with segmental pediment. All windows to main front with mullion and transom windows most with scrollwork pediments, and those on projecting wings with canted bays. Entrances on outside returns of end bays in round-arched porches backing on to diminutive hipped wing with segmental arched windows. Attached to the rear outer corner of no. 18 is no. 18A, a single-storey studio building of brick with steeply-pitched roof of rile; inside, the roof is carried on a pair of king struts with side purlins. Broad glazed dormer to north. Low structures projecting east gable end of studio forming pair of small rooms and utility section; passage to no. 18 now blocked as latter. in separate, flatted, ownership. An LC C commemorative plaque on no. 18 identifies it as the residence of the Pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt from 1903 until his death in 1910. Source: Survey of London, North Kensington, Vol.XXXVII, 1973, p.127. |
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