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Park Lane mansion

Aldford House in 1918
The ground floor plan of Beit's mansion in 1898, including a billiard room and winter garden.

Aldford House was a grand mansion built on London's Park Lane in 1894–97 for the diamond magnate, Alfred Beit. The architects were the Scottish partnership of Eustace Balfour and Hugh Thackeray Turner. Its style was somewhat Jacobean but it was not well-received and was demolished in 1929. A block of flats with the same name was then constructed on the site by the architectural partnership of George Val Myer and F. J. Watson-Hart, advised by Edwin Lutyens.

References

  1. F H W Sheppard, ed. (1980), "Park Lane", Survey of London, vol. 40, the Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair, Part 2 (The Buildings), London, pp. 264–289{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ^ Oliver Bradbury (2008), The Lost Mansions of Mayfair, Historical Publications, p. 105,138, ISBN 9781905286232
  3. Anthony Sutcliffe (2006), London: An Architectural History, Yale University Press, p. 149, ISBN 9780300110067
  4. Ed Glinert (2012), "Aldford House", The London Compendium, Penguin, p. 359, ISBN 9780718192044

51°30′30″N 0°09′13″W / 51.5084°N 0.1537°W / 51.5084; -0.1537


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