Hogarth House in Paradise Road
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Hogarth House in Paradise Road
Hogarth House in Paradise Road
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SC_PHL_01_688_67_8836 (Collage 163033)
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London Metropolitan Archives: LCC Photograph Library
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Hogarth House at numbers 32-34 Paradise Road, also known at times as Suffield House and sometimes existing as two distinct properties, is best known as the home of Leonard and Virginia Woolf between 1915 and 1924, during which time they founded the Hogarth Press and hand produced sixteen of the Press's original publications. An English Heritage Blue Plaque was erected in 1976 in commemoration. The building is mid-eighteenth century and was Grade II listed in 1968, listing number 1357753. It is believed to be in use today as a private dwelling following substantial interior refurbishment. This three-quarter view of the south (front) and east elevations shows the building as the offices of the Richmond and Barnes Conservative Association, prior to the building of modern brick office developments to both sides and replacement of the pitched porch with a more substantial entrance having a corniced flat roof supported by double columns either side. The east elevation has two large framed advertising boards, one for Golden Virginia tobacco, the other appearing to be a multiple exposure of a child with a soup spoon below the slogan 'It's a Heinz Souperday'. The white stucco building at number 30, now demolished, appears to be interwar and is seen here as owned by the Pickfords removals firm. A Ford Consul and a Fiat 500 with rear-hinged doors can also be seen parked in the street.
Hogarth House at numbers 32-34 Paradise Road, also known at times as Suffield House and sometimes existing as two distinct properties, is best known as the home of Leonard and Virginia Woolf between 1915 and 1924, during which time they founded the Hogarth Press and hand produced sixteen of the Press's original publications. An English Heritage Blue Plaque was erected in 1976 in commemoration. The building is mid-eighteenth century and was Grade II listed in 1968, listing number 1357753. It is believed to be in use today as a private dwelling following substantial interior refurbishment. This three-quarter view of the south (front) and east elevations shows the building as the offices of the Richmond and Barnes Conservative Association, prior to the building of modern brick office developments to both sides and replacement of the pitched porch with a more substantial entrance having a corniced flat roof supported by double columns either side. The east elevation has two large framed advertising boards, one for Golden Virginia tobacco, the other appearing to be a multiple exposure of a child with a soup spoon below the slogan 'It's a Heinz Souperday'. The white stucco building at number 30, now demolished, appears to be interwar and is seen here as owned by the Pickfords removals firm. A Ford Consul and a Fiat 500 with rear-hinged doors can also be seen parked in the street.
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