1–8 Collingham Gardens are eight Grade II* listed houses in

Collingham Gardens Collingham Gardens is a garden square in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. Built between 1881 and 1888, the buildings on either side of the garden were designed by Ernest George and Peto, a firm that grafted Northern Europ ...

in the

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is an Inner London borough with royal status. It is the smallest borough in London and the second smallest district in England; it is one of the most densely populated administrative regions in the ...

, London. The houses were built by the firm of Ernest George and Peto between 1883 and 1888. Architecturally, they are representative of late-Victorian individualism. No 1 Collingham Gardens is a corner house with three frontages, including one on Bolton Gardens. Originally styled "The House of the Seven Gables", ''The British Architect'' noted in 1886 that it was "English in character of composition and detail". No 4 and No 5 Collingham Gardens are Flemish in architectural treatment. Nos 6, 7, and 8 on the northern end of Collingham Gardens feature tall

Dutch gables A Dutch gable or Flemish gable is a gable whose sides have a shape made up of one or more curves and has a pediment at the top. The gable may be an entirely decorative projection above a flat section of roof line, or may be the termination of a ...

, which have been called "particularly fine specimens".

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Grade II* listed buildings in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Grade II* listed houses in London Houses completed in 1884 Houses in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Ernest George buildings {{London-struct-stub