The Vale is a street in

Chelsea Chelsea or Chelsey may refer to: Places Australia * Chelsea, Victoria Canada * Chelsea, Nova Scotia * Chelsea, Quebec United Kingdom * Chelsea, London, an area of London, bounded to the south by the River Thames ** Chelsea (UK Parliament consti ...

, London. It runs roughly north to south, from a junction with Elm Park Road and Elm Park Gardens (effectively its northern continuation) to a T-junction in the south where it meets the

King's Road King's Road or Kings Road (or sometimes the King's Road, especially when it was the king's private road until 1830, or as a colloquialism by middle/upper class London residents), is a major street stretching through Chelsea, London, Chelsea ...

. In December 2022, it was reckoned to be the eighth most expensive street in the

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. Most of the west side, 3-29 The Vale, is

Grade II listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

. This includes no 27, ''The Russian House'', the facade of which is a Russian dacha built for a "turn-of-the-century exhibition" at

The Crystal Palace The Crystal Palace was a cast iron and plate glass structure, originally built in Hyde Park, London, Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. The exhibition took place from 1 May to 15 October 1851, and more than 14,000 exhibit ...

between 1890 and 1900. After the exhibition it was bought by the architect F. E. Williams and was subsequently relocated, transformed and extended from c. 1911 to c. 1913. It was listed for sale in 2016 at £16 million.

Henry Tonks Henry Tonks, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, FRCS (9 April 1862 – 8 January 1937) was a British surgeon and later draughtsman and painter of figure subjects, chiefly interiors, and a Caricature, caricaturist. He became an influentia ...

, the artist and surgeon, lived at no 1 from 1910 until his death in 1937. His 1928–1929 painting ''Saturday Night in the Vale'' was bought by Sir William Orpen in 1929 and bequeathed to

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in 1932. It depicts George Moore reading aloud from his novel ''Aphrodite in Aulis'' to an audience of St John Hutchinson, his wife Mary Hutchinson,

Philip Wilson Steer Philip Wilson Steer (28 December 1860 – 18 March 1942) was a British painter of landscapes, seascapes plus portraits and figure studies. He was also an influential art teacher. His sea and landscape paintings made him a leading figure in ...

, and Tonks.

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{{Coord, 51.48572, -0.17567, region:GB_type:landmark, display=title Chelsea, London Streets in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea