Cheyne Walk, No. 100, Chelsea, Kensington & Chelsea, England

The following is from the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest: 

A private town garden, part of the 17th century Lindsey House. Redesigned by Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll as part of a major refurbishment of the site for Sir Hugh Lane in 1909.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

100 Cheyne Walk is situated on the north bank of the River Thames about 200 metres to the west of Battersea Bridge. Chelsea town lies about 1 kilometre to the north-east, Battersea town about 1 kilometre across the River Thames to the south, and Brompton Cemetery about 1.5 kilometres to the west. The 0.25 hectare level rectangular site is bounded by the buildings of St George's Hostel to the north, and Cheyne Walk to the south. The houses and gardens of 98 and 101 Cheyne Walk provide the east and west boundaries respectively. The site is enclosed within tall brick walls to the north of the house and iron railings set on low brick walls to the south.

REFERENCES

The Graphic, (23 July 1910), p 138

LCC, Survey of London IV, (1913), pp 35-41

L Weaver, Houses and Gardens by Sir Edwin Lutyens (1925), pp 295-296

J Brown, Gardens of a Golden Afternoon (1985), pp 184-185

A Lennox-Boyd, Private Gardens of London (1990), pp 55-59

B Cherry and N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: London 3 North West (1991), p 577

Maps

E Lutyens, 100 Cheyne Walk, Plan of the Gardens, 1909 (in Weaver 1925)

OS 25" to 1 mile: 1st edition surveyed 1865, published 1867

2nd edition surveyed 1895, published 1897

Description written: November 1999

Amended: March 2000

Edited: January 2002