Tudor House

Image: © Tiger Taken: 27 May 2016

No 16 Cheyne Walk is not a Tudor building but early Georgian (built in 1717 by John Witt). It was formerly known as Queens House; the only Tudor connection seems to be it was near the site of Henry VIII's manor house and some mulberry trees said to have been planted by Elizabeth I (see Image). It is the largest building in this section of the street and Pevsner in 1952 found it "well preserved in its original appearance ... with the exception of the painful bay window". He noted the "alternatingly rusticated brick pilasters at the corners, windows with arched heads and a central pediment" and commented on the excellence of the ironwork on the street front. The poets Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Algernon Charles Swinburne lived here during the 19th century, as did the novelist George Meredith for a time. For a close-up of the blue plaque (partially hidden by the right-hand lamp) see Image

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