2013-04-01 069 v1 London 'The Grampians' Shepherd's Bush Road
This is the Art Deco block of flats where I live (in one of them!).
I took this photo for the Estate agent when I put it on the market; it's not an easy building to photograph as you can't really get far enough away from it to get everything into the field of view. This is from a nearby street that just gives you that little bit more of the building. I also had to wait for a bus at the nearby stop that had apparently settled in for the day to clear off out of the picture; you can still see two. Fortunately most of our buses are single deckers.
The flats were built in 1937, and are on the track bed of a former railway line that used to connect with what is now the District line just West of Hammersmith Station, linking to Kensington Olympia station. Formerly it offered a rather roundabout route between Richmond and London Waterloo, but this declined rapidly in importance owing to competition from trams, and the line was closed in 1917. There was a station opposite The Grampians called 'Shepherd's Bush South'.
The original plan was to build similar blocks along the whole of the remaining length of the line, however, in the even only this one block was built.
The block is listed Grade II, and is an example of the type of housing that was being built in the interwar years to provide affordable rented housing for lower middle-class professionals. Apparently it is among the finest blocks of this kind.
Interestingly one of the architectural firms that worked on this block was the practice set up by Sir Aston Webb, the designer of the main frontage of Buckingham Palace. Perhaps that explains the numerous balconies!
For details of the listing see
www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-491325-the-grampians-...
The block continues to provide attractive accommodation at affordable prices today, that explains why I live here!
It is a mystery why it is called 'The Grampians'.
2013-04-01 069 v1 London 'The Grampians' Shepherd's Bush Road
This is the Art Deco block of flats where I live (in one of them!).
I took this photo for the Estate agent when I put it on the market; it's not an easy building to photograph as you can't really get far enough away from it to get everything into the field of view. This is from a nearby street that just gives you that little bit more of the building. I also had to wait for a bus at the nearby stop that had apparently settled in for the day to clear off out of the picture; you can still see two. Fortunately most of our buses are single deckers.
The flats were built in 1937, and are on the track bed of a former railway line that used to connect with what is now the District line just West of Hammersmith Station, linking to Kensington Olympia station. Formerly it offered a rather roundabout route between Richmond and London Waterloo, but this declined rapidly in importance owing to competition from trams, and the line was closed in 1917. There was a station opposite The Grampians called 'Shepherd's Bush South'.
The original plan was to build similar blocks along the whole of the remaining length of the line, however, in the even only this one block was built.
The block is listed Grade II, and is an example of the type of housing that was being built in the interwar years to provide affordable rented housing for lower middle-class professionals. Apparently it is among the finest blocks of this kind.
Interestingly one of the architectural firms that worked on this block was the practice set up by Sir Aston Webb, the designer of the main frontage of Buckingham Palace. Perhaps that explains the numerous balconies!
For details of the listing see
www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-491325-the-grampians-...
The block continues to provide attractive accommodation at affordable prices today, that explains why I live here!
It is a mystery why it is called 'The Grampians'.