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Gledhow Gardens

Gledhow Gardens runs between Wetherby Gardens and Old Brompton Road.

The east side consists mainly of a large terrace of five-storey (plus basement) red-brick Victorian houses. The have attractive first floor bay windows and look towards the communal garden on the west side. There is a small modern block of flats at the southern end.

Gledhow Gardens also forms part of the south terrace of Wetherby Gardens, just around the corner at the end of the street.

Gledhow Gardens was built on James Gunter II’s part of the estate.

The builder John Spicer took the first steps in the construction of Gledhow Gardens. In 1867 he built Nos. 1-9 at the southern end of the gardens and in 1874 he built the range on the north side containing Nos. 10-17. (Nos. 1-9 were originally called 1-9 The Crescent.) John Gielgud was born at No. 7. Spicer’s Gledhow Gardens houses are very different from his others in the Gunter estate. They are wholly stucco-faced, where most houses had exposed brickwork at the upper floor levels. They also have bow windows, which was unusual in this part of Kensington.

Spicer died in 1883 and the rest of his development was completed by another builder, James Baker under a sub-lease or a contract from Spicer’s son. Baker built Nos. 18-30, the range of houses on the other side of Gledhow Gardens (to the east) in 1883-4. Maurice Hulbert was probably the architect. No. 31 is a new house built in 1961-3 and designed by the architects Aslan and Freeman.

 

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