The Vale, Chelsea

The Vale is a street in Chelsea, London.

The Russian House, The Vale, 2012

It runs roughly north to south, from a junction with Elm Park Road and Elm Park Gardens (effectively its northern continuation) to a t-junction in the south where it meets the King's Road.

In December 2022, it was reckoned to be the eighth most expensive street in England.[1]

Most of the west side, 3-29 The Vale is grade II listed.[2] This includes no 27, The Russian House, the facade of which is a Russian dacha built for a "turn-of-the-century exhibition" at The Crystal Palace between 1890 and 1900, then bought by the architect F. E. Williams, then relocated, transformed and extended from c. 1911 to c. 1913.[3][4] It was listed for sale in 2016 at £16 million.[3]

Henry Tonks, the artist and surgeon lived at no 1 from 1910 until his death in 1937.[5][6] His 1928–1929 painting Saturday Night in the Vale was bought by Sir William Orpen in 1929 and bequeathed to Tate in 1932.[7] It depicts George Moore reading aloud from his novel Aphrodite in Aulis to an audience of St John Hutchinson, his wife Mary Hutchinson, Philip Wilson Steer, and Tonks.[7]