16, 18 AND 18A, MELBURY ROAD W14
16, 18 AND 18A, MELBURY ROAD W14
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225643
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- 16, 18 AND 18A, MELBURY ROAD W14
- Statutory Address:
- 16, 18 AND 18A, MELBURY ROAD W14
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225643
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- 16, 18 AND 18A, MELBURY ROAD W14
- Statutory Address 1:
- 16, 18 AND 18A, MELBURY ROAD W14
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 16, 18 AND 18A, MELBURY ROAD W14
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Kensington and Chelsea (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 24881 79321
Details
In the entry for: TQ 2479 SE MELBURY ROAD W14 35/12 No 18 GV II the entry shall be replaced by the following entry:-
TQ 2479 SE MELBURY ROAD W14 249-/35/12 Nos. 16, 18 and 18A
GV II 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 donners; outer ranges of elevation project to tenninate 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 tile; 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 LCC 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.
--------------------------------------------- TQ 2479 SE MELBURY ROAD W14 35/12 No 18 GV II
Late C19 by William Turner, builder. Symmetrical semi-detached house. Three storeys plus roof storeys and basement. Brick with stone dressings. Outer bay set forward and surmounted by prominent Dutch gable. Listed as the residence of William Holman Hunt, painter. LCC Commemorative plaque. (Surv Lon Vol XXXVII).
Listing NGR: TQ2488179321
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422086
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in Survey of London - Northern Kensington: Volume 37, Vol. 37, (1973), 127
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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