page_title: 22 St Peter's Square
section_title: Royal Chiswick Laundry
hierarchical_section_title: 22 St Peter's Square / Royal Chiswick Laundry
caption_attribution_description: English: I took this on 19th March, its the former Chiswick Laundry at the rear of St Peter's Square, Hammersmith
context_page_description: 22 St Peter's Square, in Hammersmith, London, is a grade II Listed building with a former laundry that has been converted to an architects' studio and office building. The property is situated in the western corner of St Peter's Square, that was laid out and built from 1827, opposite St Peter's Church, Hammersmith. In the basement of the rear of the building is the former studio of Island Records known as The Fallout Shelter, 47 British Grove. Many musicians began their careers or recorded in the building; Steve Winwood and Traffic, Robert Palmer, Cat Stevens, Bob Marley, U2, Nick Drake and Sandy Denny. It has a Hammersmith Society Conservation award plaque and has been included in tours in Architecture Week.
context_section_description: By 1894 the garden was completely covered by laundry buildings. The Royal Chiswick Laundry Western Dying and Cleaning Works was constructed behind the house fronting British Grove, a lane to the rear. The laundry buildings consist of two long sheds running almost the full length of the former garden. They are of London stock brick with red brick window arches under slate roofs, with glazed skylights running along the roof ridges. 
  In 1929 John Piper the artist (b 1903) lived in a flat at 22 St Peter's Square  and then by the 1940s the house and laundry was owned by the then Mayor of Hammersmith, Alderman Sir Marshall Hays JP (b 1872). The laundry closed in 1968, then the buildings were for a time occupied by a company that added soundtrack to film before the property became the offices, recording studios and premises of Island Records, who moved in with a staff of 65.
caption: The former Royal Chiswick Laundry building at the rear 22 St Peter's Square, Hammersmith
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