Latitude: 51.4859 / 51°29'9"N
Longitude: -0.1749 / 0°10'29"W
OS Eastings: 526820
OS Northings: 177902
OS Grid: TQ268779
Mapcode National: GBR 4P.XJ
Mapcode Global: VHGQY.XXDB
Plus Code: 9C3XFRPG+82
Entry Name: 28, Mallord Street
Listing Date: 9 September 1993
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1265177
English Heritage Legacy ID: 425738
ID on this website: 101265177
Location: Chelsea, Kensington and Chelsea, London, SW3
County: London
District: Kensington and Chelsea
Electoral Ward/Division: Stanley
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Kensington and Chelsea
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Chelsea St John with St Andrew
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Building
The following building shall be added: TQ 2677 NE MALLORD STREET (north side) 249-/61/10015 No. 28
II
House, built in 1913 for the painter Augustus John to designs by the Dutch architect Robert van t'Hoff. Painted brick with a pan tile roof. Single storey, with dormers, over a high half basement. Parapets to gable-ended returns. Symmetrical elevation with entrance reached up double flight of stairs and flanked by windows. Glazing bars and overlight of an original decorative pattern. Similar design to glazing bars of roof dormers. Ridge stack on axis with entrance. The plan form recalls lobby entrance houses. One room to either side of "stack bay" designed originally as dining room and entrance hall. Passage and stairs to rear, backed by the largest room in the structure, John's studio, which extends almost to rear boundary wall, 37' by 25' with an 18' ceiling; large window to north; some alterations to largely glazed end wall. Gallery at one end, with fireplace underneath; studio railing and supports show the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright's work as published in the famous Wasmuth volume of 1909. Some firesurrounds and grates of original design; glazed interior doors with door furniture also of original design.
Listing NGR: TQ2682077902
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