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Okay, I had to take this photo upside down, so you can rotate it if you want, but it says "Luncheon Bar and Billiards". (View of building.)
Address: 298 Kings Road.
Tite Street SW3
"John S. Sargent R.A. who was born in Florence Jan. 12 MDCCCLVI lived and worked twentyfour years in this house and died here April 15 MCMXXV."
Chelsea London SW3
promenades and pereambulations,
Streetscapes
In Victorian times when Chelsea was a village, these were houses built for and inhabited by modest artisans. Now as the demography and finacial means changed these cottages were turned into chic homes for the professionals. These buildings enjoy the benefit of a garden at the rear, but not a garage some of these units lack a basement but they have a loft conversion which gives them three floors. The black box half way to the left is a sign that building work is being carried out to modernize the house. Planning permission is required but these houses are at most grade 2* which means that neither the facade nor the height could be altered, but, inside and at the rear, alterations are more easily allowed.
Most of these houses are leaseholds, as opposed to freeholds, and as such, part of the leasehold obligation is for the lessee/tenant to renovate the facade every seven years - expensive, but it keeps the neighbourhood in top shape.
As the leasehold act has passed through Parliament, in some circumstances, landlords are compelled to sell and the tenants could enfranchise and buy the freehold, if they can afford it, as it is very expensive. In such cases when freeholders can no longer afford it the facades crumble and show the age. Besides, in Chelsea, there are plenty of poorer residents who were lodged in Council Houses - many moved up the social ladder, but others stayed put...
It takes time to get to know the subtler shades of an area like this.
And then there are "good' parts and less so good parts, like everywhere else.
Paultons Square
Chelsea, London SW3
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Paultons Square is Grade II listed and features stucco on the ground floor and cornices, arched ground floor windows and wrought iron balconies. The western row of terraces facing the Kings Road was called Stanley Terrace, and still retains the plaque ‘Stanley Terrace 1840’. During the 1960s it was threatened with demolition, but fortunately was saved through a London County Council preservation order.
Paultons Square has been described as ‘one of the most gracious of Chelsea squares’ and has been preserved as a complete late Georgian Square. In 1961, shortly after it had received a preservation order, former president of the Royal Academy, Sir Albert Richardson, described Paultons Square as “practically unspoilt and constitutes one of the most pleasant features in the district”.
Peter Jones Department Store (the firm of Slater, Crabtree and Moberly, completed 1936), Sloane Square SW3, Chelsea, London.