No. 10, Park Village West, Camden, London. Listed Building. The office of John Nash. c.1834-37. Photograph and text 2008 by Jacqueline Banerjee. [Click on the image to enlarge it. You may use the image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL or cite it in a print document.]
This house is not as conventional as it may seem at first. Like no. 8, it has an asymmetrical frontage. One of its Tudor-like features is the "chimney-stack rising from ground floor level," and just visible here is one of the "returns with canted bay windows" at each end (Camden Council). A plain band divides the two storeys; there is a semi-basement, windows of which can be seen behind the railings on the left. According to Roberts and Godfrey, this house was first leased to the Rev. Horace George Cholmondeley (1796-1851), the son of an aristocratic family, in 1837. A more famous later resident was the Scottish-born artist, etcher and illustrator Robert Walker Macbeth (1848-1910), a Royal Academician perhaps best known for his work for The Graphic. Macbeth lived here briefly from 1886 to 1887.
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Bibliography
Camden Council. "Listed Building Details" (source no longer available). Viewed 28 May 2008.
Roberts, J. R. Howard, and Walter H. Godfrey, eds. "Park Village West." Survey of London, Vol. 21 (1949). British History Online. Viewed 28 May 2008.
Speel, Bob. "Robert Walker Macbeth, RA RWS RI (1848-1910") — no longer available. Viewed 28 May 2008.
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