| Summary : Nos. 25-38 Hyde Park Gardens, London, comprise a terrace of houses built circa 1840. The terrace is stuccoed with a slate mansard roof and the centre five houses break forward slightly while the end houses are slightly recessed. Each house is four storeys high and three windows wide and there is channelling to the ground storey. The centre five houses have an attic, while the rest have an attic mansard. There are projecting Doric porches but a full Doric colonnade to the centre house. A first floor cast iron balcony breaks forward over the porches with pineapple finials. The terrace has square-headed window opening with sashes which are pedimented to the first floor of the centre five houses and the end houses. These pedimented windows are treated as single triplet and flanked by a Corinthian order. There is a cornice above the third floor with consoles and dentil to centre five houses. There is also a cornice to the attic. The terrace has cast iron area railings with pineapple finials. No. 32 Hyde Park Gardens, London, was the headquarters of the Jewish League for Women's Suffrage in 1913 and 1917. |
More information : Nos. 25-38 Hyde Park Gardens, London, comprise a terrace of houses built circa 1840. The terrace is stuccoed with a slate mansard roof and the centre five houses break forward slightly while the end houses are slightly recessed. Each house is four storeys high and three windows wide and there is channelling to the ground storey. The centre five houses have an attic, while the rest have an attic mansard. There are projecting Doric porches but a full Doric colonnade to the centre house. A first floor cast iron balcony breaks forward over the porches with pineapple finials. The terrace has square-headed window opening with sashes which are pedimented to the first floor of the centre five houses and the end houses. These pedimented windows are treated as single triplet and flanked by a Corinthian order. There is a cornice above the third floor with consoles and dentil to centre five houses. There is also a cornice to the attic. The terrace has cast iron area railings with pineapple finials. (1)
No. 32 Hyde Park Gardens, London, was the headquarters of the Jewish League for Women's Suffrage in 1913 and 1917. The league was founded in 1912 and believed that '"..a Jewish League should be formed to unite Jewish Suffragists of all shades of opinions.."' They welcomed both men and women as members and were not aligned to any political party. Their objective was to campaign for women to receive voting rights on the same terms as men. By 1913 the league had 300 members and in May of that year they opened a branch in the East End to build support among the Jewish immigrants. At a synagogue on Yom Kippur in 1913, three members of the league interrupted a service to criticize Herbert Samuel and Rufus Isaacs, two members of cabinet, for supporting the forcible feeding of hunger striking suffragette prisoners. (2)
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