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Holland Park is an area of Kensington, on the western edge of Central London, [1] that lies within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and largely surrounds its namesake park, Holland Park. Colloquially referred to as 'Millionaire's Row', Holland Park is among the most expensive residential areas in London and the United Kingdom .
Holland House, originally known as Cope Castle, was an early Jacobean country house in Kensington, London, situated in a country estate that is now Holland Park. It was built in 1605 by the diplomat Sir Walter Cope .
The tube station is named after Holland Park, a park in west London, although the term also refers to the residential area to the north of the park.. The station was closed for lift replacement works and refurbishment from 2 January 2016 until it reopened in August of the same year. [9]
The Kensington home of Lord Holland was demolished in 1875 to make way for Melbury Road to the north and east, [1] but the farmhouse of Holland Farm (rebuilt in 1859) remained. [2] From the 1860s, artists in the Holland Park Circle had homes built in Holland Park Road and from the 1870s in the adjoining Melbury Road.
The Tower House in 1878. In 1863, William Burges gained his first major architectural commission, Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork, at the age of 35. [8] In the following twelve years, his architecture, metalwork, jewellery, furniture and stained glass led his biographer, J. Mordaunt Crook to suggest that Burges rivaled Pugin as "the greatest art-architect of the Gothic Revival". [9]
The Leighton House Museum is an art museum and historic house in the Holland Park area of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in west London.. The building was the London home of painter Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (1830–1896), who commissioned the architect and designer George Aitchison to build him a combined home and studio noted for its incorporation of tiles and other ...
Melbury Road is a residential road in the Holland Park area of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England. [1] It is known for houses owned by the Victorian Holland Park Circle, an informal group of 19th-century artists, including William Burges, Luke Fildes, Frederic Leighton, Valentine Prinsep, Hamo Thornycroft, and George Frederick Watts.
Woodland House is a large detached house at 31 Melbury Road in the Holland Park district of Kensington and Chelsea, West London, England.Built from 1875 to 1877 in the Queen Anne style [3] by the architect Richard Norman Shaw, it is a Grade II* listed building. [2]