Royal College of Organists Building
Kensington Gore, London SW7 - England, UK
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Recently returned from India, Lieutenant H.H. Cole had had little in the way of formal architectural training when his father, the legendary patron of the arts Henry, commissioned him to design this unique building in 1873. The exquisite sgrafitto plasterwork panels, by F.W. Moody, have an almost Levantine aspect, providing a stark contrast to the ubiquitous red brick and terracotta of South Kensington. The organists moved to a new home in Birmingham when the lease ran out in 1991 and the building, a stone's throw from the Albert Hall, is now a private residence.
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