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Sydney Place

Sydney Place was probably designed by Basevi shortly before his death. The fact was mentioned in his obituary.

The terraces are relatively short.  Each house has a frontage of about twenty four feet. In appearance they are very like Egerton Crescent houses, except that the pattern of the balcony railings is different. Most have a basement, three main storeys, and garrets within a mansard roof.

All the houses in the terrace have fully stuccoed façades. There is a continuous cornice above the third storey. They all have are casement windows at ground and first floor level, opening (in the case of the ground floor windows) on to balconettes with iron railings. The first floor balconies of the individual houses are joined.

The porches have half-sunk Ionic columns and are identical along the terrace.

Between Sydney Place and Sumner Place, run Nos. 48 to 78 Fulham Road, which are also on the Smith's Charity estate and mainly contain shops and restaurants. The terrace is punctuated by the entrances to Sydney Close and Sydney Mews which take up the spare land below Onslow Square. They seem chiefly to contain rear accesses to the houses on the main streets, rather than separate mews houses.

 

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