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Pont Street Dutch is a term coined by
Pont Street Dutch is a term coined by Osbert Lancaster
Sir Osbert Lancaster, CBE (4 August 1908 – 27 July 1986) was an English cartoonist, architectural historian, stage designer and author. He was known for his cartoons in the British press, and for his lifelong work to inform the general p ...
to describe an architectural style
An architectural style is a set of characteristics and features that make a building or other structure notable or historically identifiable. It is a sub-class of style in the visual arts generally, and most styles in architecture relate closely ...
typified by the large red brick gabled houses built in the 1880s in Pont Street
Pont Street is a fashionable street in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, traversing the areas of Knightsbridge and Belgravia.
The street is not far from the Knightsbridge department store Harrods to its north-west. The street ...
in Knightsbridge
Knightsbridge is a residential and retail district in central London, south of Hyde Park, London, Hyde Park. It is identified in the London Plan as one of two international retail centres in London, alongside the West End of London, West End.
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in London. Pevsner Pevsner or Pevzner is a Jewish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Aihud Pevsner (1925–2018), American physicist
* Antoine Pevsner (1886–1962), Russian sculptor, brother of Naum Gabo
* David Pevsner, American actor, singer, da ...
writes of the style as "tall sparingly decorated red brick mansions for very wealthy occupants, in the semi-Dutch, semi– Queen Anne manner of Shaw or George
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& Peto
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".Nikolaus Pevsner. ''London 3 North West''. p. 578 London: Penguin Books, 1991.
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