Dovehouse Street

Dovehouse Street is a street in Chelsea, London. It runs roughly north to south from Fulham Road to King's Road, having junctions with Cale Street and Britten Street, among others.

Dovehouse Street, 1955
Dovehouse Green and Dovehouse Street, 2013
Chelsea Hospital for Women, 1955

The National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI), part of Imperial College London in the Guy Scadding Building is on the corner with Cale Street.[1]

Auriens, a luxury retirement complex overlooking Dovehouse Green, was built on the site of what was the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea's only local authority care home.[2][3]

The Chelsea Hospital for Women was at the top end of the street, but closed in 1988 and the buildings became the Chelsea wing of the Royal Brompton Hospital.

At the southern end, with Dovehouse Green and King's Road lies one of two possible locations for King's Road Chelsea railway station, a proposed station on Crossrail 2, a planned underground railway line.[4]

Notable residents
  • Emlyn Williams, Welsh dramatist and actor died in 1987 at his flat in Dovehouse Street
gollark: *Don't be like Sinthorion*
gollark: *Sinthorion was detained indefinitely under Some Stupid "Antiterrorism" Act and was never seen again.*
gollark: *Sinthorion is immediately arrested for suggesting such a thing because of widespread mass surveillance*
gollark: Terrorism is probably done because it's visible, even though it does not actually do much.
gollark: It's not my website.

References
  1. "Find us". Imperial College London.
  2. Neate, Rupert (3 March 2018). "Caviar care home: retirement complex for 'oligarchs' to open in Chelsea". the Guardian. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
  3. Thompson, Henrietta (8 June 2016). "Is this London's most glamorous retirement home?". Retrieved 4 March 2018 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  4. "Crossrail 2 June 2014 - Transport for London - Citizen Space". consultations.tfl.gov.uk.


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