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Newcastle House, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, England=Newcastle House is a mansion in Lincoln's Inn Fields in central London, England. It was one of the two largest houses built in London's largest square during its development in the 17th century, the other being Lindsey House. It is the northernmost house on the western side of the square.The house had a complex history. The first version wa...
Montagu House, Bloomsbury, London, England= Montagu House (sometimes spelled "Montague") was a late 17th-century mansion in Great Russell Street in the Bloomsbury district of London, which became the first home of the British Museum.The house was actually built twice, both times for the same man, Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu. The late 17th century was Bloomsbury's most fashionable era, an...
The Albany, Piccadilly, London, Middlesex,England= The Albany, or simply Albany , is an apartment complex in Piccadilly, London.===Building===The Albany was built in 1770–74 by Sir William Chambers for Viscount Melbourne ' as Melbourne House. It is a three-storey mansion, seven bays (windows) wide, with a pair of service wings flanking a front courtyard. In 1791, Prince Frederick, Duke of York ...
Chapel House, Montpelier Row, Twickenham, London, Middlesex, England= Chapel House, now No. 15, Montpelier Row, Twickenham, is a house in Greater London, England. The house has also been called Tennyson House and Holyrood House.[1] It was occupied at one time by Alfred Lord Tennyson , and poet Walter de la Mare lived in the same row nearly a hundred years later. The house was owned for many yea...
Strawberry Hill House, London, England= Strawberry Hill House, often referred to simply as Strawberry Hill , is the Gothic Revival villa that was built in Twickenham, London by Horace Walpole from 1749. It is the type example of the "Strawberry Hill Gothic" style of architecture,[1] and it prefigured the nineteenth-century Gothic revival.Walpole rebuilt the existing house in stages starting in ...
Marble Hill House, London, England= Marble Hill House is a Palladian villa built between 1724 and 1729 in Twickenham in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. The compact design soon became famous and furnished a standard model for the Georgian English villa and for plantation houses in the American colonies.===Description===Marble Hill House was built in 1724–1729 by Henrietta Howard, Cou...
Chiswick House, London, England= Chiswick House is a Palladian villa in Burlington Lane, Chiswick. Arguably the finest remaining example of Neo-Palladian architecture in London, the house was designed by Lord Burlington, and completed in 1729. The house and gardens, which occupy 26.33 hectares (65.1 acres),[1] mainly created by architect and landscape designer William Kent, is one of the earlie...
Leighton House Museum, London, England= The Leighton House Museum is a museum in the Holland Park district of Kensington and Chelsea in London. The former home of the painter Frederic, Lord Leighton, it has been open to the public since 1929.===The house===Built for Leighton by the architect and designer George Aitchison, it is a Grade II* listed building. It is noted for its elaborate Oriental...
St. Jame's Square, Lonond, England= St. James's Square is the only square in the exclusive St James's district of the City of Westminster. It has predominantly Georgian and Neo-Georgian architecture and a private garden in the centre. For its first two hundred or so years it was one of the three or four most fashionable residential address in London. It is now home to the headquarters of a numb...
Historic Buildings of Middlesex ===England> now mostly part of Greater London, with small sections in neighbouring counties. Image right - Tower of London as seen from the Shard ===== Image by © Hilarmont (Kempten), CC BY-SA 3.0 de, WIKI The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Middlesex, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings ...
Vanbrugh Castle, London, England= Vanbrugh Castle is the house designed and built by John Vanbrugh for his own family, located on Maze Hill on the eastern edge of Greenwich Park in London, to the north of Blackheath, with views to the west past the Royal Naval Hospital at Greenwich down to the Thames reaching as far as the Houses of Parliament.The castle was designed and built after Vanbrugh ha...
Sir John Soane's House (museum), London, England= Sir John Soane's Museum was formerly the home of the neo-classical architect Sir John Soane. It holds many drawings and models of Soane's projects and the collections of paintings, drawings and antiquities that he assembled.The museum is in the Holborn area of central London, adjacent to Lincoln's Inn Fields. It is a non-departmental public body...
Schomberg House, Pall Mall, London, England= Schomberg House is a mansion on the south side of Pall Mall in central London which has a colourful history. Only the street facade survives today. It was built for The 3rd Duke of Schomberg, a Huguenot general in the service of the British Crown.[1] It was adapted from Portland House, which in turn has been created by the Countess of Portland by con...
Lansdowne House, London, England= Lansdowne House is a building to the southwest of Berkeley Square in central London, England. It was designed by Robert Adam as a private house and for most of its time as a residence it belonged to the Petty-FitzMaurice family, Marquesses of Lansdowne. Since 1935, it has been the home of the Lansdowne Club. The positioning of the property was rather unusual. I...
Trent Park, London, England= Trent Park is an English country house, together with its former extensive grounds, in north London. The original great house and a number of statues and other structures located within the grounds (such as the Orangery) are Grade II listed buildings. The site is designated as Metropolitan Green Belt, lies within a conservation area, and is also included within the ...
Osterley Park, London, England= Osterley Park is a mansion set in a large park of the same name. It is in the London Borough of Hounslow, part of the western suburbs of London.When the house was built it was surrounded by rural countryside. It was one of a group of large houses close to London which served as country retreats for wealthy families, but were not true country houses on large agric...
Lambeth Palace, London, England= Lambeth Palace is the official London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury in England, in north Lambeth, on the south bank of the River Thames, 400 m[1] south-east of the Palace of Westminster which has the Houses of Parliament on the opposite bank. The building – originally called the Manor of Lambeth or Lambeth House – has been the London residence of the...
Bromley Hall, London, Middlesex, England= Bromley Hall is an early Tudor period manor house in Bow, Tower Hamlets, London. The Hall is thought to be the oldest brick house in London and was built by Holy Trinity Priory in the 1490s on the foundations of the 12th century Lower Bramerley Manor. These remain visible today in the cellar. The Hall was seized in 1531 during the Dissolution of the Mon...
Swakeleys House, Ickenham, London, England= Swakeleys House is a Grade I-listed[1] 17th-century mansion in Ickenham, London Borough of Hillingdon,[2] built in 1638 for the future Lord Mayor of London, Edmund Wright . Originally the home of the lords of the manor of Swakeleys, writer Samuel Pepys visited the house twice. The property changed hands many times over the years and at one time was ho...
Forty Hall, London, England= Forty Hall is a manor house of the 1620s in Forty Hill in Enfield, north London. The house, a Grade I listed building, is today used as a museum by the London Borough of Enfield. Within the grounds is the site of the former Tudor Elsyng Palace.===Location===Forty Hall is located in the north of the London Borough of Enfield, the northernmost borough of London. The h...
Ely Place, London, England= Ely Place is a gated road at the southern tip of the London Borough of Camden in London, England. It is the location of the historic Ye Olde Mitre public house and is adjacent to Hatton Garden. It is the last privately owned street in London, having been originally set up as an exclave of Cambridgeshire for the Bishops of Ely, and is managed to this day by its own bo...
Kew Palace, London, England= Kew Palace is a British royal palace in Kew Gardens on the banks of the Thames up river from London. There have been at least three palaces at Kew, and two have been known as Kew Palace; the first building may not have been known as Kew as no records survive other than the words of another courtier. One palace survives and is open to visitors. Grade I listed,[1] it ...
Witanhurst, Highgate, London, England= Witanhurst is a large Grade II listed early 20th-century Georgian Revival mansion located on 5 acres (2.0 ha) in Highgate, North-West London. The house has had several prominent owners since being rebuilt by the soap magnate Sir Arthur Crosfield, and after several decades of increasing dilapidation is currently undergoing refurbishment after its 2008 sale ...
Hillingdon House, London, England= Hillingdon House is a Grade II listed mansion in Hillingdon, Greater London. The original house was built in 1717 as a hunting lodge for the Duke of Schomberg. It was destroyed by fire and the present house was built in its place in 1844.The British Government purchased Hillingdon House in 1915 and it became a military hospital. In 1917, what would become the ...
Bedford House, Bloomsbury, London, Middlesex, England= Bedford House , is an estate in central London, owned by the Russell family who possess the peerage of Duke of Bedford. The estate was originally based in Covent Garden,[1] then stretched to include Bloomsbury in 1669.[2] The Covent Garden property was sold for £2 million in 1913, by Herbrand Russell , 11th Duke of Bedford to the MP and lan...