Georgian houses face the water along Chiswick Mall, with narrow lanes of weatherboarded cottages behind the high road.
What Chiswick looks like
runs narrow and cobbled from the high road down to the river. White weatherboarded cottages stand beside brown brick Georgian fronts along its length. A black and white timber-framed building holds the corner where the street bends toward the water, its jettied upper floor over small leaded windows. Ferry House is three storeys of brown brick with a columned porch and sash windows across the front. Wistaria House, a few doors along, disappears almost entirely under a wisteria vine trained up its red brick face.
Georgian and Victorian houses line along the river, about thirty of them facing gardens across the road from the water. , the largest of them, is three storeys of brown brick with red brick dressings. Its late Tudor structure sits behind a 17th and 18th century front. Most of the Mall's houses date from the 17th century to the early 20th, in matching brown brick with stucco, sash windows and fanlights over the doors.
The High Road keeps a consistent three storey height and a continuous parapet line along its shopfronts. William's Terrace, ten houses built in 1838, still stands three storeys with a plain brick front behind its ground floor signage.
At the river end, the 's gate is arched in wrought iron, lettered in gold across a red brick pier. Inside, a copper mash tun stands under exposed brick and pipework, pipes rising toward the roof.
Shot in Chiswick
Chiswick House and Gardens has appeared in the television series Bridgerton. Love Actually used a house on Blenheim Road, Turnham Green, as Jamie's home. The 1961 thriller Victim put its barrister living on Chiswick Mall. He walks through St Nicholas Churchyard in one scene.
Bridgerton, 2020
This rusticated stone gateway, its wrought iron gates set into banded stonework, stands within the gardens the production used. The house itself is a Grade I listed Palladian villa a short walk away across the lawns. Street View
Richmond's Georgian riverside terrace runs along a towpath much like Chiswick Mall, with matching brown brick and red dressings. Richmond's terrace looks more uniform than Chiswick's individually built houses. Its towpath sees more foot and cycle traffic than the Mall does, so an early call time keeps the frame clean. Try searching riverside Georgian terrace towpath now.
Society Hill's Georgian brick townhouses are close to Chiswick Mall's three storey scale, with matching sash windows and cornices along the roofline. Most of Society Hill sits inland, so a shot needing a river behind the houses still has to come to Chiswick. Wider carriageways and American street furniture need dressing out for a period match. Try searching Georgian brick townhouses now.
Marlow in Buckinghamshire, England
Marlow is a market town on the Thames, and its high street matches 's three storey height and continuous parapet line. Shopfronts fill the ground floors along a similar plot width, but Marlow's signage is more independent and less chain-branded than Chiswick's. A wide shot needs care with modern fascia colours to hold a period look. Try searching market town high street shopfronts now.
