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Thursday 25 June 2009

Kenwood: external and internal architecture, part 4 - north-west side.





Continuing round the house, the drawing room or main lounge. An internal doorway connects this room with the dining room, as per pic number 2. (Or at least did - bearing Joe's video in mind). As we've seen, in 2006 this room was still remarkably similar to the John-era. However, a couple of points - first, I had thought that the north-west end of Kenwood was externally the same as 45 years ago. Inevitably, this is not so. Look at the last pic - it's hard to find a John-era shot of this side of the house where the west facing sitting or "small" room window can be seen. You can see it in this one, though, and it has clearly been moved in the intervening years. Does that mean the sitting room was bigger in the '60's? Hard to say, though I'd guess not. It was probably done for the same reason that the position of the swimming pool was altered, ie someone just liked it better that way. Secondly, there is a door in the drawing room/lounge leading to the outside terrace - hard to spot in the internal photos, but it is clearly there. Gripping stuff, yet again. Cough, splutter. Possible soilage.

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