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Duke's Lodge

Apartment buildings in LondonHolland ParkResidential buildings completed in 1939
80 Holland Park
80 Holland Park

Duke's Lodge was a six-storey neo-Georgian 1930s apartment building on 0.6 acres at 80 Holland Park, London W11. The 35,550 sq ft building comprised 27 apartments. It was built from 1937 to 1939, designed by the architect W. J. Kieffer, and occupied from 1942. In 1955, a roof extension with two apartments was added.The building was owned by Liverpool Victoria (LV), who paid each of 12 long-term residents an average of £1 million to buy out their protected tenancy rights, so that all residents would be shorthold tenants who could be evicted at short notice.As it is not a listed building, meaning there were "few barriers to redevelopment and even demolition", and "the bidding war was aggressive".In 2013, an offshore Guernsey-based subsidiary of Christian Candy's CPC Group bought Duke's Lodge, for an estimated £50 million, making it "the capital's most expensive apartment block". In March 2017, it was reported that CPC Group had received planning permission, on appeal, to demolish the building and replace it with five interconnected stuccoed "villas" divided into 24 flats, plus a two-storey basement.

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Duke's Lodge
Holland Walk, London Notting Hill (Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea)

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W11 3SW London, Notting Hill (Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea)
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Lansdowne Studios
Lansdowne Studios

Lansdowne Studios was a music recording studio in Holland Park, London, England, which operated between 1958 and 2006. The studio was located at Lansdowne Road, Holland Park, within Lansdowne House, a Grade II listed eight-storey building which was originally constructed in 1902-04 by Scottish architect William Flockhart, for South African mining magnate Sir Edmund Davis. The building contained apartments and artists' workshops. Among the artists who had studios in the building in the early decades of the 20th century were Charles Ricketts, Charles Haslewood Shannon, Glyn Philpot, Vivian Forbes, James Pryde, and Frederick Cayley Robinson, who are commemorated on a blue plaque on the building.The building underwent significant alterations. When, in 1957, record producer Denis Preston was looking for a property in which to set up a recording studio, his assistant engineer Joe Meek found the premises, which had unusually high ceilings and a basement squash court, suitable for conversion into a studio. Preston, Meek and engineer Adrian Kerridge then established the studio, and made their first recordings there in 1958. The studio was London's first independent music recording studio. In 1962, an enlarged control room overlooking the studio floor was opened. Kerridge later became the studio's owner.It was used in its early years by many jazz and pop musicians, and became renowned for the clarity of its recordings. Musicians who recorded in the studio included Lonnie Donegan, Acker Bilk, The Dave Clark Five, Donovan, The Animals, Shirley Bassey, The Strawbs, Queen, Uriah Heep, Sinéad O'Connor, and Graham Parker.