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.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- 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
- Roof shape: gabled
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Design Museum and Leighton House.
Design Museum
Museum
Photo: Anthony O’Neil, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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
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
Photo: Yaanch, Public domain.
Kensington is an area of London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, around 2.9 miles west of Central London. The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis.
Earls Court
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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
Photo: David Hawgood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.49983° or 51° 29′ 59″ northLongitude
-0.20317° or 0° 12′ 11″ westLevels
3Open location code
9C3XFQXW+WPOpenStreetMap ID
way 128301915OpenStreetMap feature
building=houseOpenStreetMap attribute
roof-shape=gabledWikidata 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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