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In 1919, London County Council proposed an estate of about 1200 houses on the Putney House, and Dover House parkland, to fulfil a policy designed to relieve the pressure for 'Homes fit for heroes'. The Housing Act of 1919 incorporated generous subsidies for local authorities to build affordable housing for rent. The estate was meticulously ...
Close up of Hotham Hall windows, taken from Gamlen Road. Entry to Hotham Hall, Putney, with gate posts and front door porch. St Mary's Hall was designed by painter and architect Robert Douglas Wells (1875-1963), [5] [6] [7] who also designed Grand Falls House in Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland. [8]
The house derived its name from the bowling-green formerly attached to it, and for more than sixty years (1690–1750) was the most famous green in the neighbourhood of London. The house had large rooms for public breakfasts and assemblies, was a fashionable place of entertainment, and noted for "deep play." Pitt died in the house in 1806.
Palatial house built by Lewis Vulliamy for Robert Stayner Holford; replaced by the Dorchester Hotel. Drury Lane: 17th century: 1890: Drury Lane: Old houses which survived the Great Fire of London, including the former Cock and Magpie tavern (with sign), which had become Stockley's Bookshop by 1876. [10] East India House: 1729: 1861: Leadenhall ...
Putney Vale is a small community in south west London. It lies between Richmond Park and Wimbledon Common , to the east of Beverley Brook and Kingston Vale . Its main features are a housing estate, a superstore and a large cemetery.
Deodar Road is a street in Putney, in the London Borough of Wandsworth. There are no other streets named Deodar Road in Great Britain. It was formerly the site of a mansion called The Cedars and a terrace of houses built in 1853. This was on the site of Copthall, a villa rebuilt in the 1620s. Next to this was a mansion, Putney House, built in the 1680s; it was converted into a College for ...
The building was later home to publisher George Newnes 1851–1910, architect of Putney Library, who was made baronet "of Wildcroft, in the parish of Putney" in 1895. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Newnes demolished and rebuilt the building in 1877 [ 7 ] and it was visited by writer Naomi Royde-Smith as a child from 1900. [ 8 ]
Mount Clare is a Grade I listed house built in 1772 in Minstead Gardens, Roehampton, in the London Borough of Wandsworth. The architect was Sir Robert Taylor, [1] and the house was enlarged with a portico and other enrichments in 1780 by Placido Columbani. It was Grade I listed on 14 July 1955. [2]