The Tower House

The Tower House is a late-Victorian town house, built between 1875 and 1881 in the French gothic revival style by the architect and designer William Burges for himself. Located at 29 Melbury Road (formerly number 9) in the Holland Park district of Kensington and Chelsea, W14, it has been a Grade I listed building since 1949.

Burges purchased the plot of land in 1875, the house was substantially built by 1878, and the decoration of the interior, together with the designing of innumerable items of furniture and metalwork continued until Burges' early death in 1881. Much of the furniture was dispersed following Burges' death, and the house passed through a succession of owners and a period of neglect before restoration in the 1960s. Tower House is the only building designed by Burges not open to the public.