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Craven Hill Gardens, LONDON, W2 3ES

This attractive mews lies off Leinster Terrace. The spire belonged to Christ Church at Lancaster Gate but according to Wikipedia "when dry rot was discovered in the roof the decision was taken to demolish most of the site and redevelop it. The last service in the church was on 6th March 1977, and demolition began on 15th August 1977; only the tower and spire survive. The rest of the building was replaced by a housing scheme called Spire House in 1983."

Elegant stairway on this block of flats: Image

Leinster Terrace pub. The entrance to the Craven Gardens Hotel is on the left.

21-23 Craven Hill London, part of a terrace of Grade II Listed houses of about 1830-1840. the London Toy and Model Museum was open for seventeen years. Founded by two toy collectors in 1982, the museum was bought in 1989 by the Fujita Corporation which spent £5.5 million pounds on refurbishing it. The museum had 120,000 visitors a year and employed thirty people. Fujita was run by Kazuaki Fujita, also a toy collector. In 1999, four years after Fujita’s death, the Corporation decided to close the museum saying it was no longer affordable.

A curtain-walled block which, at least at first glance, resembles a typical 1960s office slab, but is in fact a block of flats. A well-groomed building by Kenneth Frampton and Douglas Stephen & Partners, 1961-62. It even has its own website on which it states that its "unique scissor design allows all flats to have west-facing living rooms with sunset views, while all bedrooms overlook the quiet communal gardens." The listing observes that "on the exterior this complexity is only hinted at by the split-level escape stair on the southern elevation" (Image]). Grade II listed. The concrete service tower was stained by nothing more serious than a recent heavy shower.

Viewed from the corner of Leinster Terrace.

Entrance to block of flats, possibly dating from the 1950s. Marble at the ground floor, modish use of ceramic tiles for the pillars and above, and a welcome survival of metal windows.

Part of a group of Grade II listed buildings in the area. See http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-413898-numbers-19-to-22-consecutive-including-n for more details.