41, Chelsea Square Sw3

41 Chelsea Square is a private house built in 1934 by Oliver Hill for Freda, Lady Forbes. The house is designed in a neo-Georgian style and features white-painted stucco. It has a square plan with a cruciform upper storey, two storeys, and a semi-basement. The low-pitched tiled roofs have pedimented gables and two tall chimney stacks. A flight of steps with decorative fretwork railing and a lamp standard leads to the central entrance, which is topped with a bracketed cornice-hood. The sash windows have glazing bars, with segmental-headed windows in the semi-basement and square-headed windows in the upper storey. The symmetry of the main facade is varied by different window shapes and types on the ground floor, including segmental-headed windows with shutters, square-headed windows, and round windows. The south-facing main facade features an oval oculus in the gable, which echoes the pediment of the adjacent No. 40, creating a picturesque ensemble.

Inside, the house retains its original staircase hall with a deep coved ceiling. The open-well staircase rises five steps, turns ninety degrees, and continues to a projecting, curved landing, with each step treated as a separate horizontal motif and wide-spaced twisted balusters. The staircase to the basement retains its original fretwork balustrading, though it is reversed. The entrance hall leads to the dining room, which was designed to accommodate Lady Forbes's Aubusson tapestries and features a jib door and an early 18th-century-style fireplace. The entrance hall and living room were remodeled with paired dentiled cornices by Sir Nigel Boakes, who also added a charming double-height garden room in neo-Gothick style, designed by Chapman Taylor around 1980. On the first floor, the principal bedroom retains its original high cove that incorporates the gable oculus.