1 Holland Park Road

1 Holland Park Road

1864-1866; altered 1877

Philip Webb (1831-1915), architect

The custom-built studio house of Valentine Cameron Prinsep in Holland Park. A simple, unornamented red-brick house with segmental and pointed arches. It was designed in 1864 and constructed in 1866, altered once in 1877 to include an additional story and drawbridge and again in 1892 to add a new wing to the east.

Monkhouse, Cosmo. “Some English artists and their studios.” Century Magazine 24 (August 1882): 560-62.

"No. VIII. Mr. Val C. Prinsep's House, Kensington," 5-6, ill. In Adams, Maurice. Artists’ Homes: A Portfolio of Drawings including the Houses and Studios of Several Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects. London: B. T. Batsford, 1883

Walkley, Giles. Artists’ Houses in London 1764–1914. Aldershot, Hants, England; Brookfield, VT: Scolar Press, 1994. Pp. 50–53, detail repr. p. 53

"No. 14 Holland Park Road," pp 22, 141-42. In Survey of London, vol. 37, Northern Kensington, edited by Sheppard, F. H. W. London: The Athlone Press, University of London, published for the Greater London Council, 1973.

Omeka record contributed by Jenifer
Norwalk

November 19, 2016
February 2, 2017, by LM

1 Holland Park Road

Kensington

London W14

14 Holland Park Road (converted to apartments)