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A History of the County of Middlesex
… were attracted to Chelsea to paint its riverside and houses, its artistic reputation was created through its … AND ELSEWHERE The main period in the building of studio-houses, their styles as idiosyncratic and artistic as their … the adjacent Victoria Hospital. Between White and Canwell houses were two plots, nos 31-33: in 1880 a studio-house was …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of an acre each. The existence of the celebrated 'great houses' of Chelsea and their occupants in the 16 th century … nobility, gentry, and court officials who wanted country houses near Westminster, especially those accessible by … men not only owned land in the parish but also had houses there. John Haverbarght, holder of a rectory in …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Green, brickmaker, for 52 years; by 1733 one or more houses had been built there on plots assigned to Robert Cook. 3 A short row of houses was built at north end of Park Walk on the east side … and occupied by 1729, 4 and the row continued with a few houses on the north side fronting Fulham Road. 5 On the east …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… ranges comprising in all at least 30 substantial brick houses, with a total frontage of 850 ft; the houses were to be two storeys high plus cellars and garrets, … after building; by 1689, when Thomas died, individual houses had been built by John Collett, carpenter, Henry …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… on land leased from the Crown. The few speculative houses built in Paradise Row in the 1690s, quickly increased to rows of houses lining the roads either side of the Hospital and … church had declined disastrously because of the number of houses being built near 'Chelsea College'. 8 The old village, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… land from Knightsbridge in the north to the backs of the houses in Turk's Row and White Lion Street in the south, and … agreed that before 1784 he would build a uniform street of houses without bow windows or any other projections except … By September 1783 he would build other similar uniform houses on both sides of Sloane Street at the southern end …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… side. 4 Kip's drawing of Beaufort House c. 1700 shows the houses at Little Chelsea in the background, all lying west of … 5 Maps of 1745 and 1769 showed a grouping of about a dozen houses stretching along the south side of Fulham Road from … grounds around Stanley House and stretching south of the houses at Little Chelsea, with some market gardens laid out …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… attracted speculators and ambitious individuals to build houses in its immediate vicinity, the superior houses in the reticent brick Dutch-influenced style used by … offensive trades. 2 By 1695 there were not only several houses built in this area between the Physic Garden and the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… which had already started by 1866 with three terraces of houses on the south side of Lots Road, with access left to … to the river. 3 By his death in 1872 Simpson had built 18 houses at a cost of £18,000, and paid £1,000 for embanking … William Christie was among those involved in building new houses, taking a lease in 1869 for a newly-built house on the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… that year. Other buildings damaged during the war were Thurloe Court, Fulham Road, and Cranmer Court, Sloane Avenue, … while the Lots Road power station with the 'depressed houses' under its shadow were seen as a blemish on the … war by the council to rehouse people bombed out of their houses and to attempt to reduce poor housing at World's End, …