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Tawney Street runs along the east side of Central Park, from Wide Bargate to Norfolk Street.  It is within Boston's Conservation Area.  Most of the houses were put up between 1904 and 1915 and display an astonishing range of inventive Edwardian detailing.

More about Boston's Conservation Areas here.


Please help us to expand this page - if you have any information about the history of Tawney Street or old photographs (pre-1950 unless you hold the copyright) please send them to info@fydellhouse.org
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Above:  general view of Tawney Street.
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Above:  most of the houses along Tawney Street have sylvan views of the park - the arrangement of park and housing being a fine example of Edwardian town planning.
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Above:  coloured tiles, elaborate lintels, exquisite detailing - the houses of Tawney Street convey playful inventive design within an overall impression of sober and respectable Edwardian solidity.
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Above:  the bay windows have wonderful "wedding cake" designs.
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Above:  corbelling beneath the rooflines creates texture, depth and shadow.
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Above:  ebullient gables, worthy of a Swiss cottage.

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Above:  encaustic tiles, worthy of a Victorian altar step.

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Above:  ogee lintel with stylised flower designs, above a leaded fanlight set with stained glass.
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Above:  keystone with half a stylised flower - perhaps a sunflower (a familiar Edwardian motif).
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Above:  inventive design that takes the traditional egg-and-dart freize motif, reverses it, and uses it as the capital supporting a door lintel (but with no column beneath!).

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Above:  very plain lintel to "Belgrave" - perhaps the lack of ornament reflecting the more sombre mood in the town accompanying the approach of war.
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