Photo by Maggie Jones
Barons Keep is a nice apartment block. Designed by Gunton & Gunton the property is five storeys in height and was designed to allow each of the 118 dual aspect flats a view of the open space to the West (presently occupied by West London College, see my earlier post for an image back then).
Here the layout, it has been built in a horseshoe shape around a central landscaped courtyard.
Photo by Maggie Jones
It has some excellent 1930s Art Deco features like the metal casement windows, in particular the fountain shaped staircase windows that run the whole height of the building, and swung balconies. It is for those reasons Barons Keep has been listed by the Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham as a building of merit.
Barons Keep is managed by its residents and they have some cool ideas. I particular like their proposed new 6th Floor made entirely of glas, it will look stunning! Here an elevation study as seen from the courtyard.
One thing however I have not found out in my ten years here in Barons Court is the question of what is it with the missing apostrophe for Barons This and That. Anybody knows?
