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The Tower House, 29 Melbury Road, is a late-Victorian townhouse in the Holland Park district of Kensington and Chelsea, London, built by the architect and designer William Burges as his home. Designed between 1875 and 1881, in the French Gothic Revival style, it was described by the architectural historian J. Mordaunt Crook as "the most complete example of a medieval secular interior produced by the Gothic Revival, and the last". The house is built of red brick, with Bath stone dressings and green roof slates from Cumbria, and has a distinctive cylindrical tower and conical roof. The ground floor contains a drawing room, a dining room and a library, while the first floor has two bedrooms and an armoury. Its exterior and the interior echo elements of Burges's earlier work, particularly the McConnochie House in Cardiff and Castell Coch. It was designated a Grade I listed building in 1949.


 * 1880s photographs of the exterior and interior of The Tower House from the Royal Institute of British Architects
 * Elevation and sections of The Tower House from the Survey of London
 * Photographs of The Tower House from the Survey of London
 * A photo comparison of Tower House and the St. Anthony Hall chapter house of Trinity College, Connecticut
 * The Arts & Crafts Home website – Colour photographs of The Tower House