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Aubrey House
Aubrey House — large 18th-century house in Holland Park in west London.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Nearest railway station
- Holland Park · 0.3 km
- Family-friendly
- Limited wheelchair access
About
Aubrey House is a historic house in the United Kingdom — typically a country seat, manor, or town house with notable architecture or history. Records date its origin to 1700. Heritage designation: Grade II* listed building. Owned by Sigrid Rausing. Address: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q67544536, W8 7JJ. Wikidata describes it as: "large 18th-century house in Holland Park in west London". Coordinates: 51.5058°, -0.2026°.
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From the Wikipedia article
Aubrey House is a large 18th-century detached house with two acres of gardens in the Campden Hill area of Holland Park in west London, W8. It is a private residence. Known for a long time as Notting Hill House, by the 1860s it had been named Aubrey House, after Aubrey de Vere who held the manor of Kensington at the time of the Domesday Book. The core of the house is thought to date to 1698; it was remodelled by Sir Edward Lloyd between 1745 and 1754. The house became a centre for radical thought and a haunt for political exiles in the 1860s under Clementia and Peter Alfred Taylor; Giuseppe Garibaldi stayed at the house in 1864 and meetings of the nascent British women's suffrage campaign were held at Aubrey House. The house served as a hospital during the First World War and later became the most expensive property ever sold in London upon its 1997 sale to the publisher and philanthropist Sigrid Rausing.
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Background
History
The first building on the site of Aubrey House was attached to a medicinal spring called Kensington Wells. This was built in 1698 by John Wright, a 'Doctor in Physick', and by 1705 had become 'much esteem'd and resorted to for its Medicinal Virtues'. From 1744 Sir Edward Lloyd owned the lease on the house and purchased the freehold in 1750. Lloyd was largely responsible for transforming the house into its current form. John Rocque's map of London indicates that the wings were added to the house between 1745 and 1754, with the north front appearing to date from the same period. By 1767 Aubrey House was occupied by the politician and art collector Richard Grosvenor, 1st Earl Grosvenor. From…
Architecture
Built from brick, the house is three storeys high with five windows in the centre and two-storey, three window wings with modern additions to the east. Historic England describes the doorcase as featuring a "dentilled pediment and entablature above Tuscan pilasters" and notes the Tuscan loggia built on the garden front.
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- Coordinates
- 51.5058, -0.2026
- District
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Parish
- Kensington and Chelsea, unparished area
- Postcode
- W8 7JJ
- Parliamentary constituency
- Kensington and Bayswater
- Established
- 1700
- Nearest railway station
- Holland Park — 0.3 km
Sources
- wikidata: Q4819127 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Aubrey House (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Aubrey House (15342884005).jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Aubrey House?
- Aubrey House is in London, United Kingdom (postcode W8 7JJ), in the parish of Kensington and Chelsea, unparished area.
- When was Aubrey House built?
- Built or established in 1700.
- Who owns Aubrey House?
- Aubrey House is owned by Sigrid Rausing.
- Is Aubrey House a listed building?
- Aubrey House is officially recognised as Grade II* listed building listed.
- How do I get to Aubrey House?
- The nearest railway station is Holland Park, about 0.3 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode W8 7JJ.