COUNTRY HOUSES

Boston Manor

Location: Boston Manor Road, TW8 9JX

Website: www.hounslow.gov.uk/info/20174/heritage_and_arts/1855/historic_houses

Bromley Hall

Bromley Hall near Tesco's on Blackwall Approach.

Location: 43 Gillender Street, E14 6RN

Carshalton House

John Fellowes was one of the wealthiest of the South Sea Company's directors at the time of the Bubble. He had a country house at Carshalton but no estate beyond its garden.

Location: St Philomena's School, Shorts Road, Carshalton, SM5 3PS

Charlton House

Charlton House and Park House (1612) may have been designed by John Thorpe.

Location: Charlton Road, SE7 8RE

Website: www.greenwichheritage.org/visit/charlton-house

Chiswick House

Burlington and William Kent designed an entertainment to the east of Chiswick House. They were seeking to promote the ascendancy of the Classicism of Palladio and Inigo Jones over the English Baroque of Wren and Vanbrugh. The earl and his architect's building was a square building with a domed hall at its centre. The pair used Palladio's Villa Rotonda near Vicenza.

The Dukes of Devonshire were Burlington's heirs. They demolished old Chiswick House. In the 1780s they added wings to the pavilion and took to using its as their Middlesex retreat

Chiswick House passed through a series of uses, eventually becoming a psychiatric hospital. In 1928 the property was acquired by the local council.

In 2003 Chiswick House contained a number of paintings that had been owned by Burlington.

Location: Burlington Lane, Chiswick, W4 2RP

Website: www.chiswickhouseandgardens.org.uk

Douglas House

Douglas House in Petersham was owned by Lord Carlton. He left it to Kitty Duchess of Queensberry, who was widely regarded by contemporaries as being his biological daughter.

Location: Deutsche Schule London, Petersham Road, Petersham, TW10 7AH

Website: www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/Places/douglas_house_petershamYjJSMPvP3rc

Eltham Palace

Location: Court Yard, Eltham, Greenwich, SE9 5QE

Website: www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/eltham-palace-and-gardens

Fenton House

Fenton House (1686) has a two-acre garden.

Location: Hampstead Grove, NW3 6SP

Website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/fenton-house-and-garden

Fulham Palace

Fulham Palace was the country seat of the Bishop of London. It had a large moat.

Location: Bishop's Avenue, SW6 6EA

Website: www.fulhampalace.org

Gordon House

Gordon House overlooks the Thames at Richmond. Robert Adam was involved in the design of the house.

Gunnersbury Park

The Gunnersbury Park Mansions

Location: Popes Lane, W3 8LQ

Website: www.visitgunnersbury.org

Ham House

The Duchess of Lauderdale's changes to Ham House led to it becoming one of the first houses to have a network of servants passages so that they were unseen.

Location: Ham Street, Ham, TW10 7RS

Website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ham-house-and-garden

Holland House

Location: Ilchester Place, W8 6LU (red, orange)

Website: www.rbkc.gov.uk/leisure-and-culture/parks/holland-park

The Hurlingham Club

Location: Ranelagh Gardens, SW6 3PR

Website: www.hurlinghamclub.org.uk

Kenwood House

Robert Adam designed three country houses close to London: Kenwood, Osterley, and Sion House.

The saving of Ken Wood by the landlord of The Spaniards.

Location: Hampstead Lane, NW3 7JR

Website: www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/kenwood

Lauderdale House

Location: Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill, N6 5HG

Website: www.lauderdalehouse.org.uk

Marble Hill House

Marble Hill - Countess of Suffolk in Twickenham

Location: Richmond Road, TW1 2NL

Website: www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/marble-hill-house

Morden Hall

Location: 21 Morden Hall Road, SM4 5JD

Website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/morden-hall-park https://mordenhall.com

Osterley House

Robert Adam designed three country houses close to London: Kenwood, Osterley, and Sion House.

Location: Jersey Road, TW7 4RB

Website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/osterley-park-and-house

Pitzhanger Manor

Pitzhanger, Ealing

Location: Mattock Lane, W5 5EQ

Website: www.pitzhanger.org.uk

Southgate Grove

Walker Gray was the heir of a Quaker brewing family. John Nash designed a Classical villa for him called Southgate Grove. The grounds were lain out by Humphrey Repton. Walker disliked seeing anyone else's chimney. Therefore, during the 1790s he acquired large tracts of land around his property in order to avoid any such eventuality.

Location: Grovelands House, Grovelands Park, The Bourne, Southgate, N14 6RA

Website: www.friendsofgrovelands.co.uk

Strawberry Hill

Location: 268 Waldegrave Road, TW1 4ST

Website: www.strawberryhillhouse.org.uk

Sutton House

Location: 2-4 Homerton High Street, E9 3JQ

Website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/sutton-house-and-breakers-yard

Syon House

Syon House - Henry VIII's body was left their overnight. It was gangrenous and burst. Dogs are some of it.

Robert Adam designed three country houses close to London: Kenwood, Osterley, and Sion House.

Location: Syon Park, Brentford, TW8 8JF

Website: www.syonpark.co.uk

Trent Park

Following his father's death in 1912 Philip Sassoon (d.1968) embraced an extravagant lifestyle. He acquired Trent Park in Middlesex and Port Lympne in Kent.

C.K. Moncrieff, an anti-Semite, wrote viciously about Sassoon.

Sybil (d.1989) married the 5^th Marquis of Cholmondley and became the chatelaine of Houghton in Norfolk. She associated with artists such as Wyndham Lewis and Sargent.

Location: Cockfosters Road, Barnet, EN4 0PS

Website: www.friendsoftrentcountrypark.org.uk

David Backhouse 2024