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49: 157:'s idea is perfect – that the drawing room is the nearest thing to the Arabian Nights he ever saw. The walls are painted, the ceiling painted and gilt, the chairs white and gold, and looking glasses in all directions. Mrs Drummond was pleasant, as I think she generally is, and keeps her people well alive by always moving. 177:
The drawing room ceilings were painted in the 'Pompeian' manner, with a wealth of detail and a softness of colour which could be appreciated by looking into the tables of looking-glass provided for the purpose. Aubusson carpets, gilt chairs and sumptuous crimson brocade curtains completed the
87:. Numbers 24 to 31 continue on a private gated road also with their own communal gardens buffering them from the busy Bayswater Road. They are amongst the most exclusive properties on the northern side of 182:'s calf-bound books. Fine copies of classical bronzes stood on tables, and on the mantelpiece of rare Italian marble, and gave the room a somewhat learned and very pleasing appearance. Flowers from 537: 522: 91:
and date from the early 19th century. Grand white stucco fronted houses now converted into equally grand flats. Access is strictly controlled via 24-hour porterage.
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was there to look at the lamps, which are his own sort and consume their own smoke, and are twice as brilliant as any others. Mrs Drummond's house is quite lovely.
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decoration. On the ground floor, a long library – fitted with birds-eye-maple book-cases and ornamented with Dresden china plaques, held
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22 Hyde Park Gardens was listed as a Prisoner of War Camp, number 17, in the English Heritage Project Report, 2003 by Roger J C Thomas.
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were also welcome visitors, and a further description of the downstairs accommodation has also survived, as follows:
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Conversation Sharp - The Biography of a London Gentleman, Richard Sharp (1759-1835), in Letters, Prose and Verse
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lies behind the houses and originally served as stables for Hyde Park Gardens.
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consists of two roads running adjacent to the north western corner of
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Grade II listed buildings in the City of Westminster
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51°30′45.5″N 0°10′16″W / 51.512639°N 0.17111°W / 51.512639; -0.17111

Hyde Park
Westminster
Greater London
Hyde Park
Kensington Gardens
High Commission of Sri Lanka
Hyde Park
listed Grade II
National Heritage List for England
Maria Drummond
Thomas Drummond
"Conversation" Sharp
Bunburys
Westmacott
Sydney Smiths
Milmans
Babbage
Faraday
Wheatstone
Faraday
Sydney Smith
Decimus Burton
Macaulay
Archbishop Whately
Sharp
Fredley
Hyde Park Gardens Mews
Yvonne Hackenbroch

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