The Tower House

The Tower House, 29 Melbury Road, is a late-Victorian townhouse in the Holland Park district of Kensington and Chelsea, London, built by the architect and designer William Burges as his home.

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Type: House
Description: late Victorian townhouse in the Holland Park district of Kensington and Chelsea, London, built by the architect and designer William Burges
Also known as: “Tower House”
Address: 29 Melbury Road, London, W14 8AB

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Design Museum and Leighton House.

Design Museum

Museum

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The Design Museum in Kensington, London, England, exhibits product, industrial, graphic, fashion, and architectural design. In 2018, the museum won the European Museum of the Year Award. Design Museum is situated 680 feet east of The Tower House.

Leighton House

Museum

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Leighton House is an historic house in the Holland Park area of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in west London. The building was the home of wealthy Victorian painter, and President of the Royal Academy, Frederic Leighton, notable for the popular Flaming June painting. Leighton House is situated 450 feet south of The Tower House.

Holland Park

Park

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Holland Park is an area of Kensington, on the western edge of Central London, that lies within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and largely surrounds its namesake park, Holland Park. Holland Park is situated 1,100 feet north of The Tower House.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kensington and Earls Court.

Kensington

Suburb

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Kensington is an area of London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, centred around 2.9 miles west of Charing Cross. The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, which runs east–west.

Earls Court

Suburb

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Earl's Court is a district of Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in West London, bordering the rail tracks of the West London line and District line that separate it from the ancient borough of Fulham to the west, the sub-districts of South Kensington to the east, Chelsea to the south and Kensington to the northeast.

West Kensington

Suburb

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West Kensington, formerly North End, is an area in the ancient parish of Fulham, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, England, 3.4 miles west of Charing Cross.

The Tower House

Categories: building and residential building
Location: South Kensington-Chelsea, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.49983° or 51° 29′ 59″ north

Longitude

-0.20317° or 0° 12′ 11″ west

Levels

Roof shape

gabled

Open location code

9C3XFQXW+WP

OpenStreetMap ID

way 128301915

OpenStreetMap feature

building=house

Wikidata ID

Q7769735

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“The Tower House” goes by many names.

Arabic: “منزل البرج”
Chinese: “塔屋”
French: “The Tower House”
Indonesian: “The Tower House”
Turkish: “The Tower House”

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