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- The Tower House, 29 Melbury Road, adalah rumah bandar dari akhir masa Victoria yang terletak di Holland Park distrik Kensington dan Chelsea, London, dibangun oleh arsitek dan desainer William Burges sebagai rumah tinggalnya. Didesain antara tahun 1875 hingga 1881 dalam gaya Gothic Revival Perancis dan digambarkan oleh sejarawan arsitektur J. Mordaunt Crook sebagai "contoh paling sempurna tentang sekular interior abad pertengahan yang dihasilkan aliran Gothic Revival, dan merupakan yang terakhir". Bangunan ini dibangun dari bata merah, dengan hiasan batu Bath dan beratap batu hijau pipih dari Cumbria, serta memiliki menara silinder yang khas dengan atap kerucut. Lantai dasar terdiri dari ruang tamu, ruang makan dan perpustakaan, di mana lantai atas memiliki dua kamar tidur dan ruang senjata. Baik eksterior maupun interiornya merupakan pencerminan karya Burges sebelumnya, terutama McConnochie House di Cardiff dan Castell Coch. Bangunan ini terdaftar sebagai bangunan Grade I dalam listed building pada tahun 1949. Burges membeli hak sewa sebidang tanah pada tahun 1875. Pembangunan rumah dikerjakan oleh Ashby Brothers, sedangkan interior dikerjakan oleh team pengrajin yang sudah lama bekerja sama dengan Burges, seperti Thomas Nicholls dan Henry Stacy Marks. Bangunan selesai pada tahun 1878, walaupun pengerjaan interior dan desain sebagian besar perabot dan pekerjaan logam berlanjut hingga kematian Burges di tahun 1881. Kemudian rumah tersebut diwariskan kepada saudara iparnya, Richard Popplewell Pullan, namun dijual kepada Colonel T.H. Minshall dan selanjutnya kepada Colonel E.R.B. Graham pada tahun 1933. Penyair John Betjeman mewarisi hak sewanya hingga 1962 namun tidak diperpanjang. Setelah sempat dibiarkan kosong dan menjadi sasaran vandalisme, rumah tersebut kemudian dibeli dan direstorasi awalnya oleh Lady Jane Turnbull, dilanjutkan oleh aktor Richard Harris dan kemudian oleh musisi Jimmy Page. Sebagian besar struktur dekorasi interior bangunan tersebut tetap terjaga, namun kebanyakan furniture, perlengkapan dan isi bangunan yang didesain Burges sudah terpencar. Banyak barang, termasuk the Great Bookcase, Zodiac Settle, the Golden Bed dan the Red Bed, sekarang tersimpan di beberapa yayasan seperti The Higgins Art Gallery & Museum dan Victoria and Albert Museum, sementara sisanya disimpan sebagai koleksi pribadi. (in)
- The Tower House, 29 Melbury Road, is a late-Victorian townhouse in the Holland Park district of Kensington and Chelsea, London, built by the architect and designer William Burges as his home. Designed between 1875 and 1881, in the French Gothic Revival style, it was described by the architectural historian J. Mordaunt Crook as "the most complete example of a medieval secular interior produced by the Gothic Revival, and the last". The house is built of red brick, with Bath stone dressings and green roof slates from Cumbria, and has a distinctive cylindrical tower and conical roof. The ground floor contains a drawing room, a dining room and a library, while the first floor has two bedrooms and an armoury. Its exterior and the interior echo elements of Burges's earlier work, particularly Park House in Cardiff and Castell Coch. It was designated a Grade I listed building in 1949. Burges bought the lease on the plot of land in 1875. The house was built by the Ashby Brothers, with interior decoration by members of Burges's long-standing team of craftsmen such as Thomas Nicholls and Henry Stacy Marks. By 1878 the house was largely complete, although interior decoration and the designing of numerous items of furniture and metalwork continued until Burges's death in 1881. The house was inherited by his brother-in-law, Richard Popplewell Pullan. It was later sold to Colonel T. H. Minshall and then, in 1933, to Colonel E. R. B. Graham. The poet John Betjeman inherited the remaining lease in 1962 but did not extend it. Following a period when the house stood empty and suffered vandalism, it was purchased and restored, first by Lady Jane Turnbull, later by the actor Richard Harris and then by the musician Jimmy Page. The house retains most of its internal structural decoration, but much of the furniture, fittings and contents that Burges designed has been dispersed. Many items, including the Great Bookcase, the Zodiac settle, the Golden Bed and the Red Bed, are now in museums such as the Ashmolean in Oxford, the Higgins in Bedford and the Victoria and Albert in London, while others are in private collections. (en)
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- "The house was exactly as he had made and furnished itmassive, learned, glittering, amazing [...] It was strange and barbarously splendid; none more than he could be minutely intimate with the thought of old art or more saturated with a passion for colour, sheen and mystery. Here were silver and jade, onyx and malachite, bronze and ivory, jewelled casements, rock crystal orbs, marble inland with precious metal; lustre iridescence and colour everywhere; vermillion and black, gold and emerald; everywhere device and symbolism, and a fusion of Eastern feeling with his style." (en)
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- The Tower House, 29 Melbury Road, adalah rumah bandar dari akhir masa Victoria yang terletak di Holland Park distrik Kensington dan Chelsea, London, dibangun oleh arsitek dan desainer William Burges sebagai rumah tinggalnya. Didesain antara tahun 1875 hingga 1881 dalam gaya Gothic Revival Perancis dan digambarkan oleh sejarawan arsitektur J. Mordaunt Crook sebagai "contoh paling sempurna tentang sekular interior abad pertengahan yang dihasilkan aliran Gothic Revival, dan merupakan yang terakhir". Bangunan ini dibangun dari bata merah, dengan hiasan batu Bath dan beratap batu hijau pipih dari Cumbria, serta memiliki menara silinder yang khas dengan atap kerucut. Lantai dasar terdiri dari ruang tamu, ruang makan dan perpustakaan, di mana lantai atas memiliki dua kamar tidur dan ruang senjata (in)
- The Tower House, 29 Melbury Road, is a late-Victorian townhouse in the Holland Park district of Kensington and Chelsea, London, built by the architect and designer William Burges as his home. Designed between 1875 and 1881, in the French Gothic Revival style, it was described by the architectural historian J. Mordaunt Crook as "the most complete example of a medieval secular interior produced by the Gothic Revival, and the last". The house is built of red brick, with Bath stone dressings and green roof slates from Cumbria, and has a distinctive cylindrical tower and conical roof. The ground floor contains a drawing room, a dining room and a library, while the first floor has two bedrooms and an armoury. Its exterior and the interior echo elements of Burges's earlier work, particularly Park (en)
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