Historic houses · London
Peterborough House
Peterborough House — house in Parsons Green, London, England.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Nearest railway station
- Pimlico · 0.8 km
About
Peterborough House is a historic house in the United Kingdom — typically a country seat, manor, or town house with notable architecture or history. Wikidata describes it as: "house in Parsons Green, London, England". Coordinates: 51.4930°, -0.1260°.
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From the Wikipedia article
Peterborough House (alias Millbank House, later Grosvenor House), on the south-west side of Parsons Green, near Eel Brook Common, was a London townhouse owned by the Mordaunt family, Earls of Peterborough and later by the Grosvenor family. It was the most westerly townhouse in the City of Westminster.
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Background
History
The mansion was built by John Mordaunt, 1st Earl of Peterborough and remained the property of his descendants until the death in 1735 of Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough. It was then purchased by a member of the Grosvenor family. It has been erroneously stated that it was purchased or built in 1660 by Alexander Davis of the adjoining manor of Ebury, whose sole daughter and heiress, Mary Davis, in 1676 married Sir Thomas Grosvenor, 3rd Baronet (1655–1700), and was the mother of Sir Richard Grosvenor, 4th Baronet (1689–1732) who inherited the house, and further vast property in London, in right of his mother. However Pennant (1793) stated: "that here, in his boyish days, he had…
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- Coordinates
- 51.4930, -0.1260
- Nearest railway station
- Pimlico — 0.8 km
- Official site
- www.tate.org.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q21061965 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Peterborough House (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: PeterboroughHouse 1666 Westminster Robert Wilkinson LondinaIllustrata.PNG (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Peterborough House?
- Peterborough House is in London, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 51.4930°, -0.1260°. The nearest railway station is Pimlico, around 0.8 km away.