Description

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TQ 27SE 4/20
5033
3.12.70

BEDFORD HILL,
Balham SW12
No 225 (The Priory)

II

Circa 1810-20. Double fronted villa in Gothic style. Three-storeys with two-storey entrance front and extension on north side. Three windows with one window extension. Stuccoed brick turretted corners, some used as chimneys. Mostly battlemented parapets with central, pierced decoration. Square-headed, architraved windows of two lights each with hood mould, some lights with pointed arches. Return on south side with splayed bay windows to ground and first floor. Battlemented, projecting entrance portico with corner buttresses and doorway with pointed, moulded arch. Charles Bravo died under mysterious circumstances in the house in 1876, resulting in a famous 19th Century murder trial.

Listing NGR: TQ2910472489

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Priory at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26318616

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)