Where is Londonderry House?

Londonderry House is in London, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 51.5056°, -0.1503°.

Gardens · London

Londonderry House

Londonderry House — a garden in england-london, United Kingdom.

London cityscape from floor 28 (top) of the Hilton Hotel - geograph.org.uk - 1180134 — Steve F — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

Plan your visit

Typical visit: 1 h–2.5 h
Best time of year: Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)

Londonderry House is a garden of interest in england-london, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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From the Wikipedia article

Londonderry House was an aristocratic townhouse situated on Park Lane in the Mayfair district of London, England. The mansion served as the London residence of the Marquesses of Londonderry. It remained their London home until 1962. In that year, Londonderry House was sold by the Trustees of the 7th Marquess of Londonderry's Will Trust to a developer who built the "Londonderry Hotel" on the site, not (as is sometimes, erroneously, stated) the Hilton. The Hilton Hotel is on the other side of the street, and had already been opened. COMO Metropolitan London now occupies the site of Londonderry House.

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Background

History

Holderness House, later Londonderry House, was designed by Athenian Stuart for the 4th Earl of Holderness in the period c. 1760–5, with ceilings based on Robert Wood's Ruins of Palmyra. The Earl is thought to have acquired the building next door as well, but at a later date. He subsequently joined the two so that the house became a double-fronted London mansion. During the First World War, the house was used as a military hospital. After the war, the 7th Marquess of Londonderry, a prominent Ulster Unionist politician, and his wife, Edith Helen Chaplin, continued to use the house and entertained extensively.

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