The Tower House — Jimmy Page, Holland Park

The Tower House at 29 Melbury Road in Holland Park is a Victorian Gothic mansion designed by the architect William Burges in the 1870s — a building of extraordinary ornamental ambition, with every room decorated in a different historical style, astronomical ceilings, and medieval stonework throughout. Jimmy Page purchased it in 1972 from the actor Richard Harris, outbidding David Bowie who also wanted the property, and has lived there for decades. Page's acquisition of the Tower House was consistent with his long interest in occultism, Victorian aesthetics, and the decorative arts of the nineteenth century; the house suited him in ways that a more conventional rock-star property would not.

Page's ownership of the Tower House during the Led Zeppelin years gave him a London base appropriate to a musician who had become one of the most celebrated and mysterious figures in rock. His other significant property was Boleskine House on the shores of Loch Ness in Scotland, previously owned by the occultist Aleister Crowley, which Page purchased in 1971 in connection with his interest in Crowley's work and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The Tower House and Boleskine together formed the two poles of a private mythology that Page maintained throughout the Zeppelin years and beyond, much of it documented in the symbolism embedded in the Led Zeppelin IV artwork and the imagery associated with the band.

The Tower House is a private residence and is not open to the public. It is one of the most significant Victorian residential buildings in London and is listed as a Grade I listed building, the highest category of architectural protection in England. The Holland Park neighbourhood surrounding it is one of London's most expensive residential areas. The building is visible from Melbury Road and Addison Road, and its distinctive tower is recognisable above the surrounding garden walls.