123 Mortlake High Street

Municipal building in London, England April 2022 April 2022 123 Mortlake High Street 123 Mortlake High Street front.jpg Residential, but converted for office use Georgian Mortlake High Street, London SW14, England 51.4704 -0.2574 type:landmark_region:GB inline,title c. 1720 yes Grade II* Limes House and Forecourt Piers 25 October 1951 1065428 123 Mortlake High Street, also known as The Limes or Limes House and previously referred to as Mortlake Terrace, is a Grade II* listed 1065428 Limes House and Forecourt Piers 25 October 1951 17 July 2020 18th-century property on Mortlake High Street in Mortlake in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. The building is now used as commercial office space. It was originally a private house and in the 20th century it functioned as the local town hall. It is featured in two paintings by J. M. W. Turner. History of the building thumb|Mortlake Terrace: Early Summer Morning (1827) by J. M. W. Turner. Frick Collection, New York. thumb|left|Mortlake Terrace (1827) by J. M. W. Turner, National Gallery of Art, Washington. The house was built in about 1720 but the facade and porch were added later.http://www.barnes-history.org.uk/BandMmap/limes.html The Limes Barnes and Mortlake History Society 30 September 2013 The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with nine bays: the central section features a porch with four Tuscan columns.The Buildings of England – London 2: South Penguin Books Bridget Cherry Nikolaus Pevsner Bridget Cherry Nikolaus Pevsner amp 1983 London 513 0-14-0710-47-7 The building was the seat of local government for the Barnes Urban District from 1895 to 193233844 4453 8 July 1932 y and then of the Municipal Borough of Barnes from 1932 until 1940, when it was damaged by wartime bombing. The house's 7 acre of grounds have now been completely built over, and the building itself has been converted to commercial office space. The exterior is still similar to what it was in two oil paintings that J. M. W. Turner (1755–1851) made while visiting the house in 1827. Artistic depictions Turner's two paintings were made for William Moffatt,http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object-page.116.html Mortlake Terrace 1827 National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 16 January 2021 whose house it then was. Mortlake Terrace: Early Summer Morning (1826) is in the Frick Collection, New York.http://collections.frick.org/view/objects/asitem/People@169/3?t:state:flow=264332a5-758a-43cd-b04e-c03e8ce0d578 https://archive.today/20130930174352/http://collections.frick.org/view/objects/asitem/People@169/3?t:state:flow=264332a5-758a-43cd-b04e-c03e8ce0d578 dead 30 September 2013 Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) Mortlake Terrace: Early Summer Morning, 1826 Frick Collection, New York City 30 September 2013 It was shown in the Royal Academy exhibition of 1826 where it was praised for its "lightness and simplicity". Mortlake Terrace (1827) is in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. The Museum of London holds a wood engraving of people at The Limes, as it was then called, watching the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. The Limes – Mortlake: 1872 is taken from London: A Pilgrimage by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Doré, 1872. Jerrold describes how "the towing paths presented to the view of the more fortunate people upon the private river-side terraces, a mixed population ..."http://www.museumoflondonprints.com/image/766683/gustave-dore-the-limes-mortlake-1872 The Limes – Mortlake: 1872 Museum of London 30 September 2013 3 December 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20131203031441/http://www.museumoflondonprints.com/image/766683/gustave-dore-the-limes-mortlake-1872 dead The house was, at the time, the residence of a Mr Marsh Nelson.http://www.victorianlondon.org/publications/pilgrimage-6.htm London: A pilgrimage Chapter VI Victorian London 1872 1 October 2013 Gustave Doré Blanchard Jerrold Gustave Doré Blanchard Jerrold amp Former residents The house's former residents include the Franks, a family of Jewish merchant bankers;Anglo-Jewish country houses from the Resettlement to 1800 Transactions & Miscellanies (Jewish Historical Society of England) Malcolm Brown 1982 28 20–38 29778917 Lady Byron, widow of the poet; the educational philanthropist Quintin Hogg; and Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley,https://books.google.com/books?id=sAA9olZqPSMC&q=the+limes+mortlake&pg=PA562 The London Encyclopaedia Macmillan Ben Weinreb Ben Weinreb Christopher Hibbert Christopher Hibbert John Keay John Keay Julia Keay amp Third 2008 485 978-1-4050-4925-2 who lived there from 1874 to 1875People of Mortlake, Barnes and East Sheen: T-Z https://www.barnes-history.org.uk/celTY.pdf 13 May 2021 Barnes and Mortlake History Society and later became Commander-in-Chief of the Forces.26676 5923 1 November 1895 References Category:1700s establishments in England Category:City and town halls in London Category:Government buildings completed in 1720 Category:Grade II* listed houses in London Category:Grade II* listed buildings in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames Category:Houses completed in the 18th century Category:Mortlake, London Category:J. M. W. Turner