10 Dorchester Drive

Grade II listed house in south London, England February 2022 February 2022 10 Dorchester Drive 10_Dorchester_Drive_(2321876376).jpg The house in 2008 House Modernist, art deco Herne Hill London England 51.458577 -0.097780 type:landmark_region:GB inline,title 1935 1936 2 Leslie H. Kemp and Frederick E. Tasker Building Preservation Notice (from February 2022), Grade II listed (from June 2022) 10 Dorchester Drive is a 1935 art deco style house in Herne Hill, south London, England. It was designed by Kemp & Tasker and the builders were Messrs Morrell of Bromley. In February 2022, an emergency Building Preservation Notice was put in place, as the building was threatened with imminent demolition; in June of the same year, it was Grade II listed. Background thumb|Addington Road Health Centre, West Wickham, was developed from a house built to the same design as 10 Dorchester Drive In 1934, Leslie H. Kemp and Frederick E. Tasker won the Ideal House Competition to design a home for the Daily Mail's Ideal Home Exhibition.Rare South London Art Deco house saved from demolition – The Twentieth Century Society https://c20society.org.uk/news/rare-south-london-art-deco-house-saved-from-demolition The Twentieth Century Society 26 February 202210 Dorchester Drive http://www.modernistlondon.co.uk/10-dorchester-drive.html Modernist London 26 February 2022 Their design used the moderne branch of the art deco style that was then in vogue. A mock-up "show home" was constructed for the 1935 exhibition, at Olympia London, in a display called "Village of Tomorrow". One feature of the design was that the two downstairs reception rooms could be combined with the hallway, to feature as a ballroom.5 bedroom property for sale in Dorchester Drive, London, SE24 – £1,750,000 https://www.hamptons.co.uk/properties/14745002/sales/DUL200307#/ Hamptons 26 February 2022When is a house unique? Marsh Laurence Herne Hill Winter 2021 152 Herne Hill Society https://issuu.com/hernehillsociety/docs/herne-hill-mag-152/s/14746590 27 March 2023 26 February 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20230327130909/https://issuu.com/hernehillsociety/docs/herne-hill-mag-152/s/14746590 dead The house The five-bedroom house on Dorchester Drive, constructed in 1935–1936 by the speculative builders and twin brothers Cyril and Stanley Morrell (born 1908),A copy of the Morrells' brochure advertising the project is held by the Local Studies Library, Bromley, Kent is one of only three examples of the design built.The others being at 77 Addington Road, West Wickham (much modified as a health centre, but nonetheless Grade II listed in 2021; co-ordinates: 51.369951 -0.002496 type:landmark_region:GB 77 Addington Road); and Stanstead, Mount Merrion, Dublin (co-ordinates: 53.297489 -6.211570 type:landmark_region:IE Stanstead) The building was constructed with its plan at an angle to the street, rather than the more usual parallel alignment. It retains several of its original features, including the bathroom fittings, iron staircase, Crittall windows and a roof terrace. Legal protection The house was placed on the market in September 2021,Chao-Fong Leonie Perfectly preserved Art Deco house that hasn't changed since the 1930s up for sale Daily Mirror 24 September 2022 having been owned by one family for 60 years. Once it was sold, noting the attractiveness of its site to property developers and consequently the likely threat of its demolition, the Twentieth Century Society, the Herne Hill Society, and several individuals campaigned for its preservation. On 24 February 2022, Lambeth Council issued a Building Preservation Notice, preventing alteration or demolition, on pain of criminal prosecution. The order would have remained in effect for six monthsHistoric England Advice on Building Preservation Notices and the Pilot Scheme on Indemnification by Historic England against Compensation https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/listing/bpn-advice-note-2021/ 26 February 2022 November 2021 26 February 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220226152050/https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/listing/bpn-advice-note-2021/ dead but, in June 2022, the house was Grade II listed, giving it permanent protection.Beavis Lauren Smith Steven A peek inside 1930s Art Deco home that is one of just two left https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/peek-inside-1930s-art-deco-24216265 13 June 2022 Wales Online 13 June 2022 Residents The house was the home of psychologist Hans Eysenck from 1960 until his death in 1997; it remained occupied by his widow Sybil until she died in 2020. Notes References Further reading Ryan Deborah S. The ideal home through the 20th century 1997 Hazar London 9781874371816 Larmour Paul Free State Architecture : Modern Movement Architecture in Ireland, 1922-1949 2009 Gandon Editions Kinsale 978-0948037726 One of the most unusual houses in Herne Hill... https://fawnbrakenews.london/2021/09/26/one-of-the-most-unusual-houses-in-herne-hill/ Fawnbrake News 26 February 2022 26 September 2021 External links Category:Art Deco architecture in England Category:Herne Hill Category:1934 architecture Category:Houses in the London Borough of Lambeth Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1936 Category:Moderne architecture Category:Grade II listed houses in London