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South Bolton Gardens

South Bolton Gardens is a very small street running east of The Little Boltons.

It contains several very large family houses and there is one very unique house on the south side with huge artist style studio windows.

The houses have large front gardens.

South Bolton Gardens surrounded Osborn House which had first been occupied in about 1821. In 1903 Sir Robert Gunter commissioned Walter Cave, the Gunters’ architect at the time, to design terraced houses to use up the available land. His design was for three houses (Nos. 4, 5, and 6) on the east side of Osborn House and two more (Nos. 8 and 9) on the west side. (Osborn House was to be numbered No. 7).

F G Minter was given the building contract and the houses were built in 1904-6. Sir Robert died in 1905 but his son Sir R B N Gunter, granted leases to Minter in 1906.

Nos. 4-6 were demolished to make way for the Bousfield School. Nos. 8 and 9 were extensively remodelled in 1929 by the architects J E Forbes and J Duncan Tate.

 

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