About "Pont Street Dutch" Architecture
"Pont Street Dutch" is a style designation made popular by Sir John Betjeman, Poet laureate, not a great poet but aan author of some brilliant verse.... and to think that this expression was coined by Osbert Lancaster's visual architectural satire From Pillar to Post includes line drawing exemplifying "Pont Street Dutch", "Stockbrokers Tudor", "Pseudish", and "By-Pass Variegated"
"Pont Street Dutch" refers to a Late Victorian style of brick buildings inspired from Ducth architecture, often displaying high Queen Anne windows and Dutch gables.
Examples are found on the Cadogan Estate, North and South of Sloane Square but also on the Grosvesnor Estate in parts of Mayfair (Mount Street), Marylebone and other discreet pockets of Victorian London. The style. is prevalent in Pont Street and it was inhabited by the "new money", so the Victorian purists thought it vulgar and turned their noses away...
"To turn backward to a past age is not just to inspect it, to find a pattern which will be the same for all comers. The backward look transforms its object; every spectator at every period— at every moment, indeed— inevitably transforms the past according to his own nature." (Siegfried Giedion, "Space, Time and Architecture")
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