Spa Green Estate
The Spa Green Estate is a public housing estate in London, designed by Berthold Lubetkin. It was listed Grade II* in 1998 and is widely viewed as being the finest example of public housing of its type. I was...
READ MORE »Cuckfield Park, Sussex
This was another project with family connections for me. Members of my father's family had spent a lot of time here in the nineteenth century as they lived at nearby Horsgate. I was able to show my clients...
READ MORE »William Booth College
The William Booth Memorial Training College, in Camberwell was built as a memorial to William Booth, the Founder of The Salvation Army. Designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, the College was completed in 1932 and...
READ MORE »Clifton Lodge, Twickenham
Clifton Lodge, Twickenham, is a detached two storey brick-built villa built between 1852 and 1865 in Italianate style and incorporating an earlier orangery. The service wing was extended soon after 1894. It is...
READ MORE »Eltham Palace
Eltham Palace is a large house in Eltham, South East London. It is currently owned by English Heritage and open to the public. It has been said that the Art Deco house is a "masterpiece of modern design". The...
READ MORE »St Saviour’s, Hampstead
In the mid-19th Century, London was spreading from the central areas to the north-west, and the Chalcot Estate, part of the endowment bestowed on Eton College by King Henry VI, was undergoing development. Local...
READ MORE »Winchester College
The School building at Winchester College was thought to have been designed by Sir Christopher Wren although this is now thought unlikely. The building measures 78ft by 35ft inside and is perhaps the finest and...
READ MORE »Pollok House, Glasgow
Pollok House was built in 1752 and designed by William Adam. It was gifted to the City of Glasgow in 1966 by Dame Anne Maxwell Macdonald, whose family had owned the estate for almost 700 years. I was...
READ MORE »Threave House, Castle Douglas
Threave House was designed in 1871 for Liverpool merchant, William Gordon. It was the creation of architect Charles G H Kinnear (1830-1894), who formed half of one of Scotland's most prominent architectural...
READ MORE »Ashton Court Stables, Bristol
It appears that there has been a house on the site since Saxon times. For some 400 years, from the mid sixteenth century, it was the home of the Smyth family. During their ownership many changes took place, and it...
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