Pont Street Dutch

Pont Street Dutch is a term coined by Osbert Lancaster to describe an architectural style typified by the large red brick gabled houses built in the 1880s in Pont Street[1] in Knightsbridge in London. Pevsner writes of the style as "tall sparingly decorated red brick mansions for very wealthy occupants, in the semi-Dutch, semi–Queen Anne manner of Shaw or George & Peto".[2]

View centred on no. 57, Pont Street.

References
  1. Sailing to Byzantium: An Architectural Companion (London: John Murray, 1969)
  2. Nikolaus Pevsner. London 3 North West. p. 578 London: Penguin Books, 1991.
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