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DINING ROOM FIREPLACE, PARK HILL, STREATHAM COMMON

DINING ROOM FIREPLACE, PARK HILL, STREATHAM COMMON

View of the ornate wooden fireplace in the dining room on the ground floor at Park Hill, Streatham Common North.  Built in c.1830 by William Leaf a banker and silk merchant. Sir Henry Tate, the sugar magnate (Tate and Lyle), art collector and philanthropist lived here from 1885.  Bought and converted to St.Michael's Convent in 1923, the building and grounds were sold to be redeveloped as a luxury residential complex in 1999.  It is a Grade II* listed building. Ref. LP20

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Ref:02338
Identifier:LP20
Date:2000

#1976 - 2000  #HOUSING  #Photograph  #STREATHAM COMMON  #TATE- Henry