STUDIO.
1891
17 St Dunstan's Road, London.
For W.E.F. Britten.
The house has been extended.
"However we know that before 1909 additional rooms were added together with dormer windows in the roof and french windows to the garden; and this is very much the way it remained until World War II when bomb damage resulted in for the replacement of the glass roof with asbestos." Source: www.tbdarchitects.co.uk
Image with the original door on the left,
published in: The Studio,
International Art Magazine, 1897.
Photo by Steve Cadman on Flickr (2006)
17 St Dunstan's Road, London, photo courtesy of John Trotter
Photo by Jamie Barras on flickr
Photo by fjordaan on flickr
Photo by David Hawgood, on geograph.org.uk
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17 St Dunstan's Road, London, photo courtesy of John Trotter
Photo by George P. Landow on www.victorianweb.org
Photo @tony.peart, gramho.com
Photo by George P. Landow on www.victorianweb.org
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17 St Dunstan's Road, London, photo courtesy of John Trotter
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17 St Dunstan's Road, London, photo courtesy of John Trotter
Link > Photo by David Hawgood, on geograph.org.uk
Photo by George P. Landow on www.victorianweb.org
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17 St Dunstan's Road, London, photo courtesy of John Trotter
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17 St Dunstan's Road, London, photo courtesy of John Trotter
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17 St Dunstan's Road, London, photo courtesy of John Trotter
Photo by George P. Landow on www.victorianweb.org
Photo by David Hawgood on geograph.org.uk
Photo by George P. Landow on victorianweb.org
Image courtesy of RIBA Drawings Collection
Image published in The British Architect, 27th May 1892
Text published in The British Architect, 27th May 1892, p.388.
Pevsner's London 3: North West (with Bridget Cherry, 1991) says in Perambulation 4: North:
A final excursion S to ST DUNSTAN'S ROAD, to another studio, No 17 (altered in 1958 for the Hungarian Reformed Church), built 1891 on a rural spot on the edge of Hammersmith Cemetery by CFA Voysey for the decorative painter WEF Britten. It is an appealingly humble cottage with studio behind, deceptively simple, but designed with Voysey's characteristic attention to detail. Roughcast walls, battered chimney, delectably inventive iron railings. Broad central door with canopy suspended from iron brackets. To its L, the timber window of the former kitchen, and another window, formerly a large studio door. To the R the more formal stone-mullioned window of the well-lit small entrance hall. The staircase formerly rose within the hall. The studio had a gallery above a deep fireplace recess, now portioned off. The exterior was originally quite colourful; the woodwork painted green, with green-glazed brick sills to the large segmental-arched studio windows.
Source: Pevsner Architectural Guides at Yale University Press.
Link > www.voyseysociety.org
Description on Historic England
TQ 2378 ST DUNSTAN'S ROAD W6 6/234 12.5.70 No 17 GV II Studio cottage. 1891-2, C F A Voysey. Painted roughcast. Green slate roof. One storey plus roof storey. Three windows to ground floor, one in eaves. Leaded casement windows, three-light below (one with stone mullions), four lights to dormer, with moulded timber cornice. Doorway to right of centre with projecting moulded porch hood and original door. Low hipped roof. Overhanging eaves with cast iron gutter on brackets. Massive central chimney. Buttresses to side walls. Interior not seen.
Photographs
and Drawings Courtesy of The Royal Institute of British Architects.
Photographs, drawings, perspectives and other design patterns
at the
Royal Institut of British Architects Drawings and Photographs Collection.
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RIBA: photo of the Studio
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RIBA: all Voysey Images
Link > Black & White photos on flickr taken in 1976
Link > www.victorianweb.org
Link > Restoration by TBD Architects, 2011 (PDF)
Link > W.E.F. Britton on Wikipedia
References:
Wendy Hitchmough, CFA VOYSEY, London 1995 pp. 41-42.
David Cole, The Art and architecture of CFA Voysey : English pioneer modernist architect & designer, 2015.
The British Architect, 27th May 1892.
Stuart Durant, C F A Voysey, London 1992, p.30.
Prof. Ian Hamerton, 'Small
Houses of Artistic Pretensions' - C F A Voysey's studio designs for artistic
clients,
in
The Orchard,
Number Ten, Autumn 2021, pp.13-14.
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