1 and 2, Pembroke Cottages
1 and 2, Pembroke Cottages, Pembroke Square, London, W8 6PF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225928
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- 1 and 2, Pembroke Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- 1 and 2, Pembroke Cottages, Pembroke Square, London, W8 6PF
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225928
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- 1 and 2, Pembroke Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 and 2, Pembroke Cottages, Pembroke Square, London, W8 6PF
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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:
- 1 and 2, Pembroke Cottages, Pembroke Square, London, W8 6PF
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:
- TQ2508979085
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 01/06/2018
TQ 2579 SW
36/11
PEMBROKE SQUARE W8
Pembroke Cottages, Nos 1 and 2
GV
II
Semi-detached pair of cottages dating from the early C19. They are two storeys high, plus basement, and each is two windows wide; the roof is hipped and covered in slate. The houses are of brick construction with channelled stucco to the ground floor and quoins at the corners; there are semi-circular fanlights to the doors. There are railings to the front gardens.
From 1909-11, No 1 Pembroke Cottages was the headquarters of the Suffrage Atelier, an organisation set up by a group of artists to produce suffrage propaganda. An appeal for studio space published in ‘Votes for Women’ led Laurence and Clemence Housman to offer their home studio for use by the group. Many suffragette banners were stitched in the studio, including some for the huge Women’s Sunday demonstration in June 1908.
Although the Suffrage Atelier was not aligned to any suffrage society, the Housmans were closest to the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), the militant suffrage society formed in Manchester in 1903. Bertha Sharp, the secretary of Kensington WSPU used Pembroke Cottages as her address, and in 1911, when the WSPU organised a boycott of the census, the return for Pembroke Cottages recorded its occupants as Laurence Housman and four anonymous women who refused to give their identities.
This list entry was amended in 2018 as part of the centenary commemorations of the 1918 Representation of the People Act.
Listing NGR: TQ2508979085
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422948
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Morton, Tara, Changing Spaces: Art Politics and Identity in the Home Studios of the Suffrage Atelier in Women's History Review, Vol. 21, (2012), 21
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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