Great layout of house just off the hub of Kensal Rise Chamberlayne Road in Mostyn Gardens.

The trio of lights feature large birds and are surrounded by coloured glass of an unusual type made from at least 1896 by Chance Brothers

Kensal Green is a fast-developing area in north-west London, in the London boroughs of Brent and Kensington and Chelsea. The surrounding areas are Harlesden to the west, Willesden to the north, Brondesbury and Queens Park to the east and North Kensington and White City to the south.

The area has seen significant gentrification over recent years, attracting people from surrounding areas such as Notting Hill and Queens Park. It is now characterised by numerous independent stores, restaurants, pubs and cafes and is earning a reputation as a ‘celebrity haunt-meets-Nappy Valley

The area has seen significant gentrification over recent years and is earning a reputation as a ‘celebrity haunt-meets-Nappy Valley’.In 2021, it was described as London’s version of Beverly Hills ^[2] and in 2009 Chamberlayne Road in Kensal Rise was named the hippest street in Europe by Vogue Magazine. Luxury goods maker Mulberry recently named its handbag Kensal and launched an advertising campaign with Cara Delevingne.

The area is now characterised by numerous independent stores, restaurants, pubs and cafes. Popular cafes include Bel and Nev, Cable, Sonora and Wild Card. Pubs include The Island, The Whippet, The Chamberlayne and Parlour – all of which offer outdoor dining. The area also features original sixties gentleman’s hairdresser Gee Barber, which has featured in numerous TV shows and commercials including one for Pinterest.

It is now home to a number of noteworthy residents including musicians Paloma Faith and Rita Ora, chef Thomasina Miers,^[5] film director, DJs and musicians Don Letts and Mark Rae, actress Thandie Newton, singer Lily Allen, model-turned-author Sophie Dahl, author Zadie Smith, David Cameron‘s ex-strategy guru Steve Hilton, the actor and writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Sienna Miller.^[6]

It has traditionally been popular with those working in the media and creative industries but those buying properties increasingly include people working in the financial district of the city and others moving from nearby Notting Hill in search of more space.

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The door light was stripped out and then the old oxidised  lead removed and replaced with new lead came then soft soldered using tallow flux just as original and then sealed and reinstalled.

Filkins Hall

The house acquired by Thomas Edwards in the early 18th century was evidently a predecessor of Filkins Hall, which was largely rebuilt after the fire of 1876. An iron fire-back with Edwards’s initials and the date 1716 was found in the Hall after the fire, and was refitted in the restored building. The main body of the house appears to have been remodelled by Edwards c. 1730–40 as a square double-pile, retaining part of the earlier building, and in 1819 the mansion, ‘although not elevated’, commanded ‘a fine prospect’.  A service wing was added around 1845, and photographs of the hall taken after the fire show the remains of a handsome if unexceptional Georgian mansion

First-floor rooms were panelled, and there was a large entrance hall with a polished mahogany staircase.  A pair of surviving gate piers on the north side of the Kencot road date from the early to mid 18th century, and are therefore roughly contemporary with the house.  Surviving outbuildings include a stone dovecot of the late 18th or early 19th century, which was originally a square two-storey building with a gable to each side and an oval gable-opening to the south; lean-to extensions have been added to left and right, together with a rear extension and alterations to windows and doors. The stone-built stable block, rebuilt for Edward Colston by Richard Pace of Lechlade, has a datestone inscribed E/C/N 1810, with a dolphin (the Colstons’ family emblem) depicted underneath. The building is symmetrical, with a slightly projecting central bay, a central arched carriage-opening, and a shaped gable and belfry. The flanking two-storey stable wings are of three bays each.

Colonel F. B. de Sales la Terrière, who began the restoration of Burford Priory, bought Filkins Hall in 1912 and rebuilt it in Jacobean style, incorporating some original walling and the mid 19th-century service wing. The builder was Mr Groves, and one of the masons George Swinford. Wrought-iron gates dating from c. 1912 were intended as the start of a driveway leading to the house and to an artificial lake, but neither lake nor drive were ever constructed. The Goodenoughs lived there from 1917, but in 1987 sold the Hall to developers. Thereafter the main part was converted into ten apartments and the stable block into three houses.

No time on this visit the fabulous Five Alls the renown local hostelry

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The schemes picked up on the flower head and the flower bud

In the process I also built a numbered top light

Some more fabulous work from Period House Joinery

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I have worked in BSE before see here

The finished article which is top right is undistinguishable from the rest of the original leaded lights:

Bury St Edmunds began as an Anglo Saxon settlement called Bedric’s worth. Worth was a Saxon word meaning an enclosure such as a farm or hamlet surrounded by a stockade. In 630 Sigebert the king of East Anglia founded a monastery there.

Bury St Edmunds is “The nicest town in the world” according to William Cobbett, Essayist and Traveller. The town is probably most famousfor the ruined Abbey that stands near to the town centre, surrounded by Abbey Gardens, and is one of the hidden gems of Suffolk.

The Abbey itself was founded in 1020 and grew in power and wealth up until its suppression in 1539 when,  as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the Abbey was surrendered to Henry VIII. It was sold on by the Crown, the Abbot’s Palace survived as a house until 1720 but the Abbey precinct became a quarry for building material for the townsfolk and the shrine of St Edmund was stripped and broken.

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Sadly St Giles Church in Holme has been targeted again:

Update – a fourth break in reported here

I have worked here before on the adjacent two windows – see here 

Now the pressure is on to have a new leaded light built and installed before Christmas and add extra security

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For these type of repairs we exclusively use P1 restoration glass from Tatra Glass

The grade two listed house in the High Street has the leaded lights to the rear and an interesting history:

Late C16 timber frame, remodelled late C17, exterior restored late C19. Painted, 3 gable, brick front with steep old tile roof. Cusped bargeboards. Central chimneystack of 4 square shafts and triple C17 stack of octagonal shafts on S. Two and a half storeys. 5 window street front has twinned casements and sashes on Ground and 1st floor, and 1-light casements in attic. Central, 6-panel door with ornamental hood. Bands between floors. Interior has very good late C17 newel oak staircase in original well at rear centre of house. Large late Tudor brick fireplace with beam and chamfered arch in centre Ground floor. 2 late C17 mullioned windows on N rear side.

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This was part of a package of work for Coulson Building Group  and followed on directly from the Hughes Hall contract

Kenmare House was the home of Cambridge University Estate Management until acquisition by Pembroke College who have acquired the associated site all the way down Mill Lane. The main staircase featured a large sash window with the upper half retaining a few pieces of original etched glass border which is highly intricate

The lower sash was fitted with ugly Flemish obscured glass which really detracted from the look. It was agreed with the Architect to rthe look and the job of salvaging the remaining glass which is incredibly thin and delicate was entrusted to us

With the pattern available a full set of perfect match glass etchings have been created and now the original look of the sash pair is restored

The project is entirely funded by the billionaire Dolby family – Ray and wife Dagmar who graduated from Heidelberg University in her native Germany met in 1962 while studying in a summer program at Cambridge University.

Un due course Pembroke College plan the redevelopment of the entire Mill Lane site.

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The work focused on the Margaret Wileman Building named after (19 July 1908 – 12 August 2014) was a British academic administrator, lecturer in education, and teacher. From 1953 to 1973, she was Principal of Hughes Hall, Cambridge, and a lecturer in education at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

This is the building in colder times

The leaded lights feature fluted glass in lightweight cames requiring very careful restoration

Hughes Hall is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It is the oldest of the University of Cambridge’s postgraduate colleges. The college also admits undergraduates, though undergraduates admitted by the college must be aged 21 or over. There is no age requirement for postgraduate students. The majority of Hughes Hall students are postgraduate, although nearly one-fifth of the student population comprises individuals aged 21 and above who are studying undergraduate degree courses at the University.

Hughes Hall was founded in the 19th century as the Cambridge Training College for Women with the purpose of providing a college of the University dedicated to training women graduates for the teaching profession. Since then it has enlarged and expanded to support a community of students and researchers, both male and female, working in all the academic domains encompassed by the University of Cambridge.

The college is housed in a number of 19th and 20th century buildings at a main site immediately adjacent to the University of Cambridge’s Cricket ground, and between the City Centre and the railway station.

This was the first major refurbishment of the building designed by William Fawcett and inaugurated in 1895

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A challenging repair because I did not want to change the whole leaded light as the top portion was entirely sound. The bottom had been pushed out by diners in the restaurant leaning on the glass – the above picture has the bottom two rows of glass quarries inserted into the existing window.

The Cross Keys has recently been crownd the overall winner of the Channel 4 programme Four in a Bed The show involves four B&B owners taking turns staying at each other’s hotels, requiring them to inspect the rooms and sample the dinner and breakfast menus.

The next morning, each couple will then pay what they consider fair for their stay and the winning hotel is the one named best value for money.

The local papers include reports of the triumph – Saffron Walden Reporter and Cambridge Evening News

Located on the High Street of Saffron Walden the Cross keys is a timber-framed building dating back to the 15^th Century and is said to be haunted by a Cromwellian soldier.

Staff and visitors have reputedly heard phantom footsteps walking up and down the corridors and each Christmas Eve it is said the soldier runs down a dead end passageway and then disappears without a trace

It was originally Known as the Bull in 1709, but had become the Cross Keys by 1778.

The original name of the town in north west Essex was simply ‘Walden’, from the Saxon words for ‘Valley of the Britons’. It gained the prefix ‘Saffron’ when it became a centre for cultivating crocuses in the medieval period. Though the autumn-flowering crocuses actual produced a purple flower, they were used to make perfume, and a yellow dye for cloth, hence the name. The crocus was also used to flavour food and in medicinal concoctions for catarrh. The medieval prosperity brought by the crocus trade is evident by the number of attractive timber-framed buildings clustered around the market square.

The area was settled from prehistoric times, and there are ancient earthwork remains near the town. Much of the street layout we see today in the centre of Saffron Walden follows the course of the bailey enclosure of a 12th century castle built by Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex. Mandeville also founded a Benedictine Priory and established the first market here. He rebelled against the crown and lost his life, and the castle eventually crumbled into a ruin. It stands today near the museum, one of the oldest purpose-built museums in the country, founded in 1835.

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Here is the leaded light apart with the central portion still to be stripped

Cracked glass needs to be matched and replaced – this is all caused by the distortion of the leaded panel. As the door slams shut the glass and lead have weight which gradually makes the panel creep – the further from the hinge the greater the force applied.

I added some sponge draft excluder to the door surround to soften the closing. Client had this to say on completion: ‘All looks good and hopefully will last a good long time.’

Here is another from Sherlock Road in Cambridge receiving the same treatment:

This was how it looked before I started the strip down of the old leadwork

Reinstalled back into the front door the client had this to say: ‘We greatly appreciate your work and love the result.’

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