One of Bloomsbury’s premiere Victorian Mansions Blocks with beautifully kept gardens, Ridgmount Garden’s is regarded as one of the West Ends finest settings Constructed in the 1890’s this attractive red brick block occupies an island site, and comprises of one hundred and forty nine apartments ranging from one to four bedrooms set over lower ground, ground and four upper floors with many of the original features retained.. The Freehold is owned by the Bedford Estates, the area largest landlords.
Ridgmount Gardens, built around 1890, appears for the first
time as a Listed Building in the 1891 Census. In 1891 the original building
record 16 heads of households with the basement being taken up with kitchen,
dining room and possibly the caretakers flat. By 1901 with the Huntley
Street extension bringing the building to its present size they had 37
heads of households with again the same restrictions of space within the
basement.
On 26 October 2006 a Bliue Plaque was unveiled at Flat 34 This flat was
occupied by Bob Marley in 1972 as the Wailers were making a name for themselves.
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