St. Paul's Studios On The Talgarth Road

Many artists living inwards London who convey ever travelled W volition convey marvelled at the Artists Studio from the Arts too Crafts era - alongside the wonderful large northward facing windows - on the A4 only earlier the offset of the Hammersmith Flyover.

They're called St. Paul's Studios. I've ever wanted to know to a greater extent than close them too the sale of 1 of them way this post includes information about:

one which is for sale and
the history of the studios
other 19th century artists' studio buildings inwards London - inwards Pembroke Gardens, Kensington; Tite Street, Chelsea too Greville Road, St John's Wood.

I abide by it fascinating that most of the studios developed inwards W London inwards the 19th century too due east London at the dorsum cease of the 20th century. Where I alive (in the East End of London) has to a greater extent than artists per foursquare mile than whatever other identify inwards the UK!

St Paul's Studios on the Talgarth Road (courtesy of Google Streetview)

Artist's Arts too Crafts Studio for Sale.

You tin laissez passer on the axe read to a greater extent than close the solid which is for sale on the next links.
Estate Agent: Featherstone Leigh listing
Address: 149 Talgarth Road, London, W14 9DA (Grade II Listed inwards 1970) - formerly known every bit #8 St Paul's Studios.
Built: 1891
Listed Status: Grade II listed - which way that the exceptional features of the edifice cannot hold out altered without exceptional permission of the relevant planning authority.
Asking Price £1.4 1 one one thousand thousand | Offer made: £1.525 million
Previous occupants: Dame Margot Fonteyn who used the infinite every bit a trip the low-cal fantastic studio
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Many artists living inwards London who convey ever travelled W volition convey marvelled at the Arti St. Paul's Studios on the Talgarth Road

Past sales

These studio houses exercise come upwards on the marketplace from to fourth dimension - but non real often.

1993: Nos ii too three were on the marketplace for £220,000 each (reference)
2003: 1 of these studios was on the marketplace priced at £1,100,000
2007: some other was on the marketplace for £1,200,000.
2012: 135 Talgarth Road went on the marketplace for £1.3million (See The perfect dwelling for a 'bachelor artist': H5N1 £1.3 1 one one thousand thousand fourth dimension warp inwards Artists' Row)
2012: 145 Talgarth Road - sold for £1m inwards Nov 2012
2014: 145 Talgarth Road - sold for £1.36m inwards May 2014

145 Talgarth Road

The downside to the houses are that they convey the extremely noisy too muddied Talgarth Road to the front end (studio window side) too the Piccadilly Line to the nurture too alone minor gardens front end too back. Of course of study when they were built circumstances were real different

The History of St. Paul's Studios

Designed by: Frederick Wheeler FRIBA (1853–1931)
Built: 1891
Purpose: Designed to solid bachelor artists - on behalf of James Fairless a fine fine art publisher
Accommodation:

Ground Floor: three "living" rooms for the artist
First Floor: The "work infinite / studio" - xxx feet long too 22 ft broad (9.1 m × 6.7 m) alongside a 20-foot-high (6.1 m) ceiling
Basement: Housekeeper's Flat

Address: Originally issue #1 to #8 St Paul's Studios, Red Cow Lane (and later Colet Gardens); the numbers converted to #135 to #149 (odd numbers only) Talgarth Road at a later date.

Articles close the studios:

Chestertons: Artists' studios that halt traffic
London Details: St Paul's Studios documents to yesteryear occupants of the dissimilar houses
Country Life: Studios alongside an artistic past
The Guardian: For sale: Margot Fonteyn's Arts too Crafts live-in studio
Daily Mail: The perfect dwelling for a 'bachelor artist': H5N1 £1.3 1 one one thousand thousand fourth dimension warp inwards Artists' Row

Other historical artists' studios inwards London

This article yesteryear The Independent discusses St Paul's Studios too other historic studios inwards London. I was surprised to abide by that some of them were permit to artists yesteryear the Prudential insurance companionship who aimed to permit studio spaces to artists.

Pembroke Studios, Kensington (map)- 11 studios, each alongside a skylight too a floor- to-ceiling, north-facing window.

Pembroke Studios, site plan, too typical studio invention too elevation. C. F. Kearley, builder, 1890–1
British History Online

Tite Street, Chelsea

Tite Street was dwelling to a issue of artists too there's a few houses alongside real large windows. This is 31-33 Tite Street which used to hold out the dwelling too studio of John Singer Sargent. Whistler too used #33 every bit his studio. The strange affair close the properties inwards Tite Street is that none of them convey the much desired northward facing window.

Greville Road Studios, St John's Wood

This is an article close the planned refurbishment of a listed artists studio - alongside images - inwards Greville Road, St John's Wood

I've ever idea it would hold out fun to exercise a gazette of the locations of all the artists studios inwards London!

If anybody else has links to interesting fine art studios inwards London I'll add together them into this post.