The Tower House at 29 Melbury Road is a Grade I–listed late-Victorian townhouse in Holland Park, designed and built as the home of architect William Burges between 1875 and 1881 in the French Gothic Revival style. Architectural historian J. Mordaunt Crook called it “the most complete example of a medieval secular interior produced by the Gothic Revival, and the last”. After passing to Colonel T. H. Minshall and, in 1933, Colonel E. R. B. Graham, the remaining lease was inherited by John Betjeman in 1962 (he did not extend it). Following a period of vacancy and vandalism, it was restored—first by Lady Jane Turnbull, then owned by actor Richard Harris and, from 1972, by Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, an avid admirer of Burges who has spoken about the house’s obsessive detailing. The Tower House is a private residence and not generally open to the public; its distinctive exterior can be viewed from Melbury Road.

ADDRESS:
29 Melbury Rd, London W14 8AB, Great Britain

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