1–5 and 6 Sydney Place
1–5 and 6 Sydney Place, South Kensington, are a group of large terrace houses situated on the corner of Sydney Place and Fulham Road in London, United Kingdom. Sydney Place leads into Onslow Square. The buildings have been listed Grade II as a group on the National Heritage List for England since 1969.[1]
The buildings span 5 floors and the freehold is owned by the Wellcome Trust. They stand four storeys high and cover over 5600 square feet.[2]
Designed by George Basevi in the early nineteenth century, they were built by Charles James Freake between 1844 and 1845.[3] At the end of the century, 1 Sydney Place changed from a residential to a commercial building. Until its acquisition by an interior designer company in 2017, the building had been home to a branch of HSBC bank.
References
[edit]- ^ Historic England, "6 Sydney Place, 1-5 Sydney Place (1226867)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 12 March 2018
- ^ Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. "Heritage Statement 44 Fulham Road and 1 Sydney Place, London, SW3 6HH" (PDF). p. 3.
This Heritage Statement report has been prepared by Turley Heritage on behalf of the Wellcome Trust ('the applicant'), to provide relevant and proportionate information to the local planning authority with regard to heritage impacts arising from the proposed internal and minor external alterations at Nos. 44 Fulham Road and 1 Sydney Place ('the Site'), within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea ('RBKC').
- ^ F H W Sheppard (1983). "The Smith's Charity Estate: Charles James Freake and Onslow Square Gardens". Retrieved 1 August 2017.
Freake began building in Sydney Place (which was named after the third Viscount, later Earl, Sydney, one of the trustees) in 1844, and had completed the street by 1846.