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Kenilworth Court is a
The building is on the south side of the Lower Richmond road, bordered with Waterman street and Kingsmere close, it lies within the Putney Embankment Conservation Area. Kenilworth Court contains four postcodes, SW15 1EN, SW15 1EW, SW15 1HA and SW15 1HB.
Kenilworth Court was designed by architect R. C. Overton, it was built from 1902 and completed by 1905. The building has Dutch gables, bracketed stone balconies, stone architraves over the windows and iron railings, with 'Kenilworth Court' displayed over the entrance to each block. There are 150 portered flats spread between eight mansion blocks. The central courtyard had a tennis court before World War II, it was then used for growing vegetables and is now managed garden.
It was originally built as rented family accommodation, but between the 1950s and 1970s residents acquired individual apartment leases, and gained freehold of the overall property. In 1976 'Kenilworth Court (Putney) Management Limited' was registered by seven residents under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965. In 1986 the company changed its name to Kenilworth Court Co-Ownership Housing Association Limited, who have managed the building since then.
Kenilworth Court has had several notable residents:
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Official site of Kenilworth Court Co-Ownership Housing Association Ltd
Entry on the Financial Conduct Authority Mutuals Public Register
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Edwardian
The Edwardian era or Edwardian period of British history spanned the reign of King Edward VII, 1901 to 1910 and is sometimes extended to the start of the First World War. The death of Queen Victoria in January 1901 marked the end of the Victori ...
residential building in Putney
Putney () is a district of southwest London, England, in the London Borough of Wandsworth, southwest of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.
History
Putney is an ancient paris ...
in the London Borough of Wandsworth
Wandsworth () is a London boroughs, London borough in southwest London; it forms part of Inner London and has an estimated population of 329,677 inhabitants. Its main named areas are Battersea, Balham, Putney, Tooting and Wandsworth, Wandsworth ...
, it has had several notable residents.
Location
The building is on the south side of the Lower Richmond road, bordered with Waterman street and Kingsmere close, it lies within the Putney Embankment Conservation Area. Kenilworth Court contains four postcodes, SW15 1EN, SW15 1EW, SW15 1HA and SW15 1HB.
Architecture and history
Kenilworth Court was designed by architect R. C. Overton, it was built from 1902 and completed by 1905. The building has Dutch gables, bracketed stone balconies, stone architraves over the windows and iron railings, with 'Kenilworth Court' displayed over the entrance to each block. There are 150 portered flats spread between eight mansion blocks. The central courtyard had a tennis court before World War II, it was then used for growing vegetables and is now managed garden.
It was originally built as rented family accommodation, but between the 1950s and 1970s residents acquired individual apartment leases, and gained freehold of the overall property. In 1976 'Kenilworth Court (Putney) Management Limited' was registered by seven residents under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965. In 1986 the company changed its name to Kenilworth Court Co-Ownership Housing Association Limited, who have managed the building since then.
Notable residents
Kenilworth Court has had several notable residents:
* Cyril Power
Cyril Edward Power (17 December 1872 – 25 May 1951) was an English artist best known for his linocut prints, long-standing artistic partnership with artist Sybil Andrews and for co-founding the Grosvenor School of Modern Art in London in 1925. ...
(1872-1951) was an English artist who co-founded The Grosvenor School Of Modern Art
The Grosvenor School of Modern Art was a private British art school and, in its shortened form ("Grosvenor School"), the name of a brief British-Australian art movement. It was founded in 1925 by the Scottish wood engraver Iain Macnab in his ho ...
in London.
* William Cooper William Cooper may refer to:
Business
*William Cooper (accountant) (1826–1871), founder of Cooper Brothers
* William Cooper (businessman) (1761–1840), Canadian businessman
*William Cooper (co-operator) (1822–1868), English co-operator
* Will ...
(1910-2002) was an English novelist.
* Gavin Ewart
Gavin Buchanan Ewart FRSL (4 February 1916 – 23 October 1995) was a British poet who contributed to Geoffrey Grigson's ''New Verse'' at the age of seventeen.
Life
Ewart was born in London and educated at Wellington College, before entering C ...
(1916-1995) was a British poet.
* Jaroslav Drobný
Jaroslav Drobný (; 12 October 1921 – 13 September 2001) was a World No. 1 amateur tennis and ice hockey champion. He left Czechoslovakia in 1949 and travelled as an Egyptian citizen before becoming a citizen of the United Kingdom in 1959, w ...
(1921-2001) was a World No. 1 amateur tennis champion
* Carol II
Carol II (4 April 1953) was King of Romania from 8 June 1930 until his forced abdication on 6 September 1940. The eldest son of Ferdinand I, he became crown prince upon the death of his grand-uncle, King Carol I in 1914. He was the first of th ...
(1893-1953) reigned as King of Romania from 8 June 1930 until 6 September 1940. He lived in Flat 113 Kenilworth Court (using Flat 112 Kenilworth Court for his retinue) while in London.
* Hugh Gater Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Putney (1908-2004) was a British politician, campaigner and Labour Party member of Parliament and the House of Lords.
* Fred Russell
Fred Russell (August 27, 1906 – January 26, 2003) was an American sportswriter from Tennessee who served as sports editor for the ''Nashville Banner'' for 68 years (1930–1998). Beginning in the 1960s he served for nearly three decades as ...
(1862-1957) was an English ventriloquist. Usually credited as being the first to use a knee-sitting figure, he is known as "The Father of Modern Ventriloquism". He lived in Flat 71, Kenilworth Court, between 1914 and 1926.
* William Bullerwell (1916-1977) was a British geologist and geophysicist, Chief Geophysicist and Deputy Director of the Institute of Geological Sciences in Britain.
Popular culture
Kenilworth Court has been a filming location for several productions: * ''All the Colors of the Dark
''All the Colors of the Dark'' ( it, Tutti i colori del buio) is a 1972 ''giallo'' film directed by Sergio Martino and starring Edwige Fenech, George Hilton (actor), George Hilton and George Rigaud. The film was also released under the alternate ...
'' film (1972). Location of Jane Harrison's flat.
*''Agatha Christie's Marple
''Agatha Christie's Marple'' (or simply ''Marple'') is a British ITV (TV network), ITV television programme loosely based on the books and short stories by British crime novelist Agatha Christie. The title character was played by Geraldine McEw ...
'' TV series Season 3, Episode 4: "Nemesis" (1 January 2009). Office of Raymond West.
* ''New Tricks
''New Tricks'' is a British television police procedural
The police show, or police crime drama, is a subgenre of procedural drama and detective fiction that emphasizes the investigative procedure of a police officer or department as the ...
'' TV series Season 9, Episode 9: "Part of a Whole" (22 October 2012). Stephen Fisher's flat.
References
External links
Official site of Kenilworth Court Co-Ownership Housing Association Ltd
Entry on the Financial Conduct Authority Mutuals Public Register
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