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Woodland House is a large detached house at 31 Melbury Road (originally 11 Melbury Road), in the Holland Park district of Kensington and Chelsea, W14. Built in the Queen Anne style by the architect Richard Norman Shaw, it is a Grade II * listed building.〔 Commissioned by the painter Luke Fildes, it was latterly occupied by the film director Michael Winner.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Interview: Michael Winner on collecting Donald McGill )〕 Woodland House is situated next to William Burges' Grade I listed Tower House.〔 Originally 11 Melbury Road, the house was renumbered as 31 Melbury Road in 1967.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Survey of London: volume 37: Northern Kensington )〕 It was the second of two houses in Melbury Road designed by Shaw, the first, 8 Melbury Road, was designed for fellow painter Marcus Stone.〔 Fildes and Stone were artistic rivals and each naturally regarded their own Shaw-designed house as superior.〔 Of the construction of Woodland House Fildes wrote in November 1876 that "The house is getting on famously and looks stunning...It is a long way the most superior house of the whole lot; I consider it knocks Stone's to fits, though of course he wouldn't have that by what I hear he says of his, but my opinion is the universal one."〔 Fildes took up residence in Woodland House in October 1877 and lived there until his death in the house in February 1927. Fildes was survived by his wife and six children.〔''FildODNB''.〕 In 1959 the London County Council commemorated Fildes at Woodland House with a blue plaque.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=FILDES, Sir Luke (1844-1927) )〕 ==Location== The development of Melbury Road in the grounds of Little Holland House created an art colony in Holland Park, the inhabitants of which became known as the Holland Park Circle.〔Dakers 1999, p. 4.〕 Shaw congratulated Fildes on acquiring "such a delicious site" in May 1875.〔 The site was recommended to Fildes by Val Prinsep, it is at the bend of Melbury Road, with vistas to the south and west, adjoining Holland Lane (now Ilchester Place) on the east. The garden spans three quarters of an acre and contains tropical and native trees. The gardens of Woodland House and the adjoining Tower House both contain trees from the former Little Holland House.〔Dakers 1999, p. 173.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Woodland House」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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