Gardens · London
Nell Gwynn House
Nell Gwynn House — a garden in england-london, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2.5 h
- Best time of year
- Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)
About
Nell Gwynn House is a garden of interest in england-london, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Nell Gwynn House is a ten-storey residential building in Sloane Avenue, Chelsea, London, designed in the Art Deco style by G. Kay Green. Completed in 1937, it stands next to the same architect's Sloane Avenue Mansions, built a few years earlier.
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Background
History
In the 1840s, there was a house on the site of Nell Gwynn House in which the member of parliament George Thompson lived. A blue plaque added to the side of the present building in 2013 commemorates Thompson being visited there in 1846 by the notable American Frederick Douglass. The Victoria County History notes that by the end of the decade the district was "filled with housing for the better off, a curious mixture of select, consciously picturesque low houses and enormous and forbidding blocks of flats, either cautiously Art Deco or approximately neoGeorgian in style." It continues: With a footprint forming a giant capital W, the building's geometric design is mostly Art Deco, but making…
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 51.4922, -0.1650
- Address
- | location_town = Chelsea, London
- Established
- 1937
Sources
- wikidata: Q28365512 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Nell Gwynn House (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Nell Gwynn House?
- Nell Gwynn House is in London, United Kingdom.
- When was Nell Gwynn House built?
- Built or established in 1937.
- Who owns Nell Gwynn House?
- Nell Gwynn House is owned by | current_tenants =.