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Holland Park Mews

Grade II listed buildings in the Royal Borough of Kensington and ChelseaGrade II listed houses in LondonHouses completed in 1869Houses in Holland ParkMews streets in London
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Holland Park Mews is a mews street in the Holland Park district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, W11. The mews consists of 67 residential properties, originally built as 68 stables, on a cobbled road with two entrances from Holland Park. The west entrance passes under an arch listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England. The arch was built in 1862, and the stables from 1860 to 1879.In addition to the arch the houses either side of the mews are Grade II listed in two groups as Nos 1–34 and 35–67. The Historic England listing describes them as "buildings of unusual design and marked picturesqueness".Bridget Cherry, writing in the 1991 London: North West edition of the Pevsner Architectural Guides, remarks of Holland Park Mews, "The grand entrance gate...and splendid parapets survive to distinguish these as very ritzy mews". The architectural critic Ian Nairn described the mews it as "a cathedral among mewses (sic)".The actor Ian Holm is a former resident of the mews.Roger Moore and Alexis Kanner filmed a scene from the 1969 film Crossplot on the mews, and Peter Cushing and Sue Lloyd went to a party held at the mews in the 1968 film Corruption.

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Holland Park Mews
Holland Park Mews, London Notting Hill (Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea)

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Holland Park Mews 48
W11 3SX 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.