15-27 Pelham Crescent in 2013
Pelham Crescent is a circa 1825 Georgian crescent of houses in
South Kensington , London
SW7 , England, designed by architect
George Basevi . Numbers 1–14 and 15–27 are separately
Grade II* listed .
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[2]
The private
communal gardens in the centre of Pelham Crescent are 0.4345 hectares (1.074 acres) in size. The selling of garden keys to the residents of Pelham Crescent funds the maintenance of the garden. The lessees of 1-27 Pelham Crescent and 1-29 and 2-18 Pelham Place had access to the gardens as a right of their leases until the leases expirations in 1932.
[3] The freehold of the garden is owned by the Smith's Charity Estate (now owned by the
Wellcome Trust ).
[3]
The average value of a house on the mews was £7.3 million in 2020.
[4]
No 21., the former home of Nigel Playfair, in 2013
Actor-manager
Nigel Playfair 's former residence at No. 26 is marked by a
London County Council blue plaque erected in 1965 and
Francois Guizot 's former home at 21 is commemorated by an
English Heritage blue plaque placed in 2001.
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[6]
Notable residents
No. 7 —
Edward John Trelawny , poet, 1861 to 1881
[3]
No. 10 —
Robert and
Mary Anne Keeley , actors
[7]
No. 11 —
George Godwin the elder , architect
[3]
No. 21 —
François Guizot , politician and author
[5]
No. 22 —
Moses Margoliouth , Hebrew scholar and Christian convert from Judaism,
[8] later Georges d'Oultremont and Baron Jean de Blommaert, Belgian Army officers and resistance organisers in World War II
[9]
No. 25 —
Charles James Mathews , actor and impresario from 1865 to 1870
No. 26 —
Nigel Playfair , actor-manager
[3]
The publisher
Max Reinhardt lived in Pelham Crescent for 25 years.
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References
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Historic England .
"1-14, Pelham Crescent SW7 (1065887)" .
National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 5 April 2015 .
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Historic England .
"15-27, Pelham Crescent SW7 (1357470)" .
National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 5 April 2015 .
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b
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e
"London Gardens Online - Pelham Crescent" .
London Parks & Gardens Trust . Retrieved 14 January 2020 .
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"House prices in Pelham Crescent, London SW7" .
Zoopla . Retrieved 14 January 2020 .
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b
"GUIZOT, François (1787-1874)" .
English Heritage . Retrieved 14 January 2020 .
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"PLAYFAIR, Sir Nigel (1874-1934)" .
English Heritage . Retrieved 14 January 2020 .
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"Survey of London: Volume 41, Brompton The Smith's Charity Estate: Bonnin, Basevi, and Pelham and Egerton Crescents" .
Survey of London .
Victoria County History . Retrieved 16 January 2020 .
^ Katz, David S. (2004).
"Margoliouth, Moses (1815–1881)" .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/18055 .
ISBN
978-0-19-861412-8 . Retrieved 16 January 2020 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^ Roy Berkeley (14 November 1994).
A Spy's London . Pen and Sword. p. 123.
ISBN
978-1-4738-1160-7 .
^ Rosenthal, T.G. (2004).
"Reihardt, Max (1915–2002)" .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/77404 .
ISBN
978-0-19-861412-8 . Retrieved 16 January 2020 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
External links
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