6 Cheyne Walk

6 Cheyne Walk is a Grade II* listed house on Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London, built in 1718.

6 Cheyne Walk

6 Cheyne Walk

6 Cheyne Walk

6 Cheyne Walk

6 Cheyne Walk

6 Cheyne Walk

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Coordinates: 51°29′03″N 0°09′53″W / 51.48422°N 0.16469°W / 51.48422; -0.16469

5 Cheyne Walk

5 Cheyne Walk is a Grade II* listed house on Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London, built in 1718.

The miser John Camden Neild lived there from 1814 until his death in 1852.

5 Cheyne Walk is now the residence of the Cypriot High Commissioner to the UK.

5 Cheyne Walk

5 Cheyne Walk

5 Cheyne Walk

5 Cheyne Walk

5 Cheyne Walk

5 Cheyne Walk

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Coordinates: 51°29′03″N 0°09′52″W / 51.48424°N 0.16452°W / 51.48424; -0.16452

4 Cheyne Walk

4 Cheyne Walk is a Grade II* listed house on Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London, built in 1718 and architecturally in the Queen Anne style. There is a blue plaque noting that the novelist George Eliot lived there until her death. In 2015, it was acquired by former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.

History

It was most probably designed for its first owner, William Morrison.

According to Walter Godfrey's 1909 Survey of London, it was built with greater care and expense than 1 to 3 Cheyne Walk (built about the same time). The house can be dated to 1718, because of the date 1718 on the lead head to the rainwater pipe. This pipe was formerly at the back of the house, and is now at the front of the house. The red brick facade was almost identical to 1718, except that a third storey was added, and "battlements" now exist upon the parapet. However, the house has had certain modifications to the interior.

Notable inhabitants

In 1851, the organist, composer and teacher Sir John Goss was living there with his wife, five children, sister-in-law and two servants.

Cheyne Walk

Cheyne Walk is a historic street, in Chelsea, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

Location

Cheyne Walk forms part of the A3212 and A3220 trunk roads; it extends eastwards from the southern end of Finborough Road past the Battersea and Albert Bridges, after which the A3212 becomes the Chelsea Embankment. It marks the boundary of the, now withdrawn, extended London Congestion Charge Zone.

East of the Walk is the Chelsea Physic Garden with its cedars. To the West is a collection of residential houseboats which have been in situ since the 1930s.

History

Cheyne Walk takes its name from William Lord Cheyne who owned the manor of Chelsea until 1712. Most of the houses were built in the early 18th century. Before the construction in the 19th century of the busy Embankment, which now runs in front of it, the houses fronted the River Thames. The most prominent building is Carlyle Mansions.

In 1972, number 96 Cheyne Walk, the then home of Philip Woodfield, a British civil servant, was the site of a top secret meeting between the British government and the leadership of the Provisional IRA aimed at ending the violence in Northern Ireland. The talks were inconclusive and the violence soon started again.