16, 18 AND 18A, MELBURY ROAD W14

Nos. 16, 18, and 18A, Melbury Road comprise a pair of semi-detached houses with an attached studio, dating from 1877. The studio was completed before 1893, and was designed by William Turner, a Chelsea builder. The houses are constructed of brick in Flemish bond, with rubbed and cut brick dressings. They have tiled roofs, and three storeys with attic dormers. The outer ranges of the elevation project, terminating in Dutch scrolled gables containing large transomed windows. A two-storey rectangular porch is positioned to the side of each house. High brick stacks are located behind these projections and on the party wall. The main elevation has a four-window range, with each house featuring a tall dormer with a segmental pediment. Most windows have mullion and transom glazing, typically with scrollwork pediments; those on the projecting wings feature canted bays. Entrances are on the outside returns of the end bays, accessed through round-arched porches that back onto small, hipped wings with segmental arched windows. A single-storey studio building, No. 18A, is attached to the rear outer corner of No. 18. It is constructed of brick with a steeply pitched tiled roof, internally supported by a pair of king struts with side purlins. A broad glazed dormer faces north. Low structures project from the east gable end of the studio, forming a pair of small rooms and a utility section; a passage to No. 18 is now blocked, as the latter is in separate, flatted, ownership. An LCC commemorative plaque on No. 18 identifies it as the former residence of the Pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt, from 1903 until his death in 1910.