Seal House, Pottery Lane

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Seal House and Attached Garden Wall 34, Kensington Description: Seal House and Attached Garden Wall 34 Grade: II Date Listed: 27 September 2000 English Heritage Building ID: 487931 OS Grid Reference: TQ2432180412 OS Grid Coordinates: 524321, 180412 Latitude/Longitude: 51.5090, -0.2100 Location: Pottery Lane, Kensington, Greater London W11 4DB Locality: Kensington Local Authority: Kensington and Chelsea County: Greater London Country: England Postcode: W11 4DB Listing Text TQ 2480 SW POTTERY LANE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL 249/23/10216 Notting Hill Gate 27-SEP-00 34 SEAL HOUSE II House. Early C19 with mid C19 front door and late C20 left side extension. Original part of stock brick with hipped slate roof with end brick chimneystacks with octagonal chimneypots and wide eaves cornice. Three storeys and basement: three windows to front elevation. Second floor has small cambered 12-pane sashes to second floor, larger

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History and description of Seal House on Pottery Lane, in the Norland Conservation Area.

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Seal House and Attached Garden Wall 34, Kensington

Description: Seal House and Attached Garden Wall 34Grade: IIDate Listed: 27 September 2000English Heritage Building ID: 487931OS Grid Reference: TQ2432180412OS Grid Coordinates: 524321, 180412Latitude/Longitude: 51.5090, -0.2100Location: Pottery Lane, Kensington, Greater London W11 4DBLocality: KensingtonLocal Authority: Kensington and ChelseaCounty: Greater LondonCountry: EnglandPostcode: W11 4DB

Listing TextTQ 2480 SW POTTERY LANE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL 249/23/10216 Notting Hill Gate 27-SEP-00 34 SEAL HOUSE

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House. Early C19 with mid C19 front door and late C20 left side extension. Original part of stock brick with hipped slate roof with end brick chimneystacks with octagonal chimneypots and wide eaves cornice. Three storeys and basement: three windows to front elevation. Second floor has small cambered 12-pane sashes to second floor, larger

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cambered 12-pane sashes to first floor and ground floor has wider cambered 16-pane sashes. Central cambered doorcase with fanlight and mid C19 four panelled door. Rear elevation has central cambered sash with 12-panes only, lighting stairwell. There is an attached stock brick wall about 8 feet high ( much renewed in C20) and a two foot high front garden wall with C20 black brick coping and two stock brick square gatepiers about 6 feet high with stone pyramidal caps and gate with Gothick tracery. Attached to right hand side is a two storey late C20 extension built of stock brick with two casements to first floor and sashes without glazing bars to ground floor.INTERIOR: Early C19 central staircase with column newels, mahogany handrail and stick balusters, wooden fireplaces, many with cast iron firegrates, original moulded cornices and kitchen with built-in wooden dresser and stone floor.

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