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Hogarth House


  • Address: 32 - 34 Paradise Rd
  • Vicinity: Eton St
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building

Hogarth House is a Grade II English Listed Building in Richmond, Greater London Authority, United Kingdom. - AsNotedIn


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1750/00/00 Hogarth House is built Mid C18, 3-storey house with basement, 5 windows wide. Slate roof to parapet. Rear has recessed centre with Venetian windows to first and second storeys.
1870/00/00 After the residence falls into disrepair following the area's decline in social standing, Hogarth House is divided in two.
1915/03/00 Virginia Woolf Home Leonard and Virginia Woolf move into Hogarth House, the left townhouse, at 34 Paradise Road in Richmond.
1917/00/00 Hogarth Press Established Virginia and Leonard buy a hand printing press for 19 Pounds 5s 5d and place it in their drawing room. They plan to use it to publish at low prices short works of merit that will not appeal to a large public. They call it Hogarth Press, after their house.
1917/00/00 Virginia Woolf Author Around the same time, Virginia Woolf writes "The Mark on the Wall" and "Kew Gardens". Kew Gardens (Woolf short story)
1917/00/00 Virginia Woolf Work Virginia and Leonard buy a hand printing press for 19 Pounds 5s 5d and place it in their drawing room. They plan to use it to publish at low prices short works of merit that will not appeal to a large public. They call it Hogarth Press, after their house.
1918/00/00 Virginia and her husband, Leonard, began printing her "Kew Gardens" via their Hogarth Press. Kew Gardens (Woolf short story)
1975/00/00 Hogarth House is restored to a single property.
2017/00/00 After 15 layers of paint had been stripped off the hand-carved wooden panelling, and decades of dirt cleaned from under the floorboards, Hogarth House is restored and modernized as two townhouses. The 18-month project took twice as long as expected.

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Particulars for Hogarth House:
Area of Significance Architecture
Sight Category Building

Data
English National Heritage List: 1357753



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