97-100 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London, Lindsey House

Summary

Lindsey House consisted of seven dwellings, Nos 95 to 101. The Trust owns Nos 97/98, (now a single dwelling), and 99/100 (also now a single house). The other three houses are not National Trust. Reconstructed or built as Lindsey House from an earlier house in 1674, (Datestone over the porch of No 100 in 1913, Survey of London 1913), but altered and divided into separate houses in 1752 and 1775. Part of Lindsey House was built in 1674 on the site of Sir Thomas More's garden overlooking the River Thames. The garden at the rear of 99/100 was designed and laid out by Sir Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll for the tenant, Sir Hugh Lane, in 1909. It is Grade II in the Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England.

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Probably rebuilt as Lindsey House in 1674 but altered and divided into separate houses in 1775. Three storeys and dormers. Two windows each (No 98 - 3 windows). Stucco. Windows square-headed, almost flush frames. Glazing bars. Tiled mansard roof. Moulded wood eaves cornice. Bands at first and second floor. Rusticated quoins to Nos 95, 96, 98 and 100. No 98 has finely carved doorcase with split pediment, cast iron balconies on columns to first and second floor and balcony railing above cornice. No 100 - 3 window splay bay and covered entrance on forecourt resigned by George Devey in late C19. No 101, added c1752 by the Moravian architect Sigismund von Gersdorf, forms part of the group. No 96 has LCC tablet commemorating residence of J A M Whistler. No 98 to Mark and Isambard Brunel. (R.C.H.M. and Survey of London, Vol IV).

Lindsey House, one of the old 'palaces' of Chelsea, was built for the Court physician Sir Theodore de Mayerne and reached the zenith of its fame as the home of Robert, Earl of Lindsey, Lord Great Chamberlain to Charles II. In 1750 the house was acquired by Count Zinzendorf for a Moravian settlement and twenty years later was subdivided into five dwellings; these became three in the C19. In c 1909 the then tenant of 99/100 Cheyne Walk, Sir Hugh Lane, founder of the Dublin Art Gallery, set about the restoration of the house and garden. He appointed the architect Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) to redesign the garden and parts of the house. Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) provided the planting plan for the garden. In 1983 the then tenant found the skeleton of Lutyens' design surviving beneath several years of neglect. Arabella Lennox-Boyd was appointed to assist in reinstating the rear garden, adapting it where necessary to the tenant's needs.

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