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Thursday 28 October 2010

Kinfauns, part 1: 1953 & 1967.


Above, on the left, a sketch from the original plan of W. M. Carter, the architect who designed Kinfauns in 1953. The plan dates from August of that year, and represents "details of a proposed detached bungalow with garage to be erected at Claremont Park (The Lawn), Esher, Surrey, for R. Gray Esq.". Compare with the identical angle in a pic from 1967; the garage referred to in the plan was eventually stuck on the side of the house, adjacent to the living room.
One wonders what Messrs C and G would have made of the bungalow's highly psychedelicised state come '67 (another odd little slice of kismet on a related theme to follow in the next post).
This garage wasn't in evidence on the original floor-plan. Note that Kinfauns, in common with Kenwood and Sunny Heights, started off much smaller than it ended up:


The fireplace, also ultimately lysergicised (if you will) by the Fool, began life as follows, again from the '53 plan. The door evident in the Schwingin' Shikshtiesh shot would have led through to the aforementioned garage, though it wasn't used as such (or was it?) when George lived there:


Judging by all this, Kinfauns must have been built in late '53 or early '54 (and enlarged later). More on all this pish to follow.

4 comments:

  1. Looks like the same table in the sunroom in December 68' (and there abouts)

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  2. Love the photo of the living room! Rarely have I seen photos of inside the house.

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  3. Great photo of the living room! Rarely have I seen photos inside. Thanks for posting.

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  4. I strongly believe that mural made by the Fool is not in the living room on the orginal plan. For me it's on the other side of the wall, in a room that was built later, around 1966, where was before a garage.

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