It's nothing to do with the Birmingham fiasco or even Putney, but people here who like old buildings might find this interesting.Yesterday I was with a group looking at wisteria, which is in full bloom at the moment, and we happened upon this house, 59 Glebe Place, which is rather magnificent: a typical Victorian/Arts and Crafts building:Looking it up on Wikipedia, we learnt that the architect was John Lowe and the house was built in the 1980s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Glebe_Place
End of story, you'd think - until we looked further and found that the Victorian Web had a different story, that it was built in the 1880s and the later date, in Pevsner, was probably a misprint. : much more likely.https://victorianweb.org/art/architecture/homes/51.htmlThat seems straightforward enough, though there are some oddities. The Victorian reference cites the architect as Joseph, Son & Smithen in the heading but John Lowe in the text. And there is a contemporary architect called John Lowe but I can't find a Victorian one. Altogether a small mystery, but the house itself is magnificent, especially the window in the tower:
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Richard Carter ● 9d