Barons Keep was purpose-built block with communal gardens dating from 1937.
The area had been the western edge of the Gunter Estate – land purchased piecemeal by James Gunter from 1799 and mainly used as market gardens.
Barons Keep was built as a U-shaped range of blocks designed to look like an ocean-liner. The orientation of the buildings was chosen to provide each flat with a view over the open land on the other side of Gliddon Road. This was formerly St Paul’s School playing fields, but is now occupied by Hammersmith & Fulham West London College.
