Hammersmith Terrace is a street of listed, brick-built houses in

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, west London. All of the seventeen houses in the terrace are Grade II listed, except No. 7 which is Grade II*. The street was built in about 1770 and has been home to several notable artists. The 70 foot gardens reach right down to the Thames, giving the owners

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. There are views across the river to the fields of St Paul's School.'London Portfolio: 16 Hammersmith Terrace', in ''Country Life'', Vol. 193, Issue 5, February 4, 1999), p. 59

Past residents

No. 1 was home to the

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in the first decade of the twentieth century. No. 3 was once home to the actress and singer

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(Mrs Mountain) (1768–1841). It was later home to the Arts and Crafts printer

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for 24 years, until he moved to no. 7 in 1903. The calligrapher

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(1872–1944) lived here from 1905 to 1912 and is commemorated with a blue plaque. No. 5 was lived in by the artist engraver William Harcourt Hooper, at least until 1911. No. 6, owned by the Needham family, descendants of the inventor of the shotgun cartridge ejector mechanism, was where the writer

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took up residence in 1925.My Father and Myself, J. R. Ackerley, Penguin Books, 1968, p. 156 7 Hammersmith Terrace was home to the

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printer

from 1903 to 1933. It is now a museum. No. 8 was home to

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's daughter, and then the artist

Mary Annie Sloane Mary Annie Sloane (10 December 1867 – 30 November 1961) was an English artist associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. Life She was born in Leicester, an area which was the subject of many of her prints. She studied at Leicester School ...

. No. 10 was home to the art critic

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. No. 11 was the home of the Quaker politician T. Edmund Harvey (1875–1955) and his wife, Alice Irene, from 1911 to 1916, and from then the home and office of architect

Fred Rowntree Frederick Rowntree (19 April 1860 Scarborough – 7 January 1927 Hammersmith) was an Arts and Crafts architect. Life and career Rowntree was the son of John Rowntree, a master grocer and Ann Webster. His brother, John Rowntree, traded in tea ...

(1860–1927). Alan Herbert Blue Plaque Hammersmith Terrace 01

No. 12 was home to

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, humorist, novelist, playwright and law reform activist until his death in 1971. No. 13 was home to the artist

Philip James de Loutherbourg Philip James de Loutherbourg, RA (born Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg; 31 October 174011 March 1812) was a French-born British painter who became known for his large naval works, his elaborate set designs for London theatres, and his invent ...

until his death there in 1812. No. 15 was lived in by Sir Clifton Wintringham (1720–1794), physician to the King. From the mid-1950s until his death in 1995, the composer and music critic

Hugo Cole Hugo Cole (6 July 1917 – 2 March 1995) was an English composer, cellist, critic and author on musical subjects. Education and early career Cole was born in London, one of three children of a successful barrister, Arthur Frederick Andrew Cole (1 ...

lived at No 15. No 16 was built in 1775 for the actor and playwright Arthur Murphy (1727–1805), who lived there for many years. He was later declared bankrupt, and the debtor's porch is said to have been built so that a look out for bailiffs could be kept.

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was a lodger at the house in the 1940s. It was bought by Mr and Mrs John Martineau (both architects) in 1986, and they carried out major renovations.

References

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