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Doughty House is a large house on Richmond Hill in Richmond, London, England, built in the 18th century, with later additions. It has fine views down over the Thames, and both the house and gallery are Grade II listed buildings. [1] [2] This view from Richmond Hill is the only view in England protected by an Act of Parliament. [3]
Part of the Royal Manor of Richmond since Domesday, Richmond Park was enclosed by King Charles I around 1635 as a post-medieval deer park. The manor was mostly agricultural land in the early 18th century, but Terrace Walk was laid out at the top of Richmond Hill in the later 18th century, followed by construction of further grand houses, including Downe House.
This is intended to be as full a list as possible of country houses, castles, palaces, other stately homes, and manor houses in the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands; any architecturally notable building which has served as a residence for a significant family or a notable figure in history.
The Wick is a Grade I listed Georgian house [1] in Richmond, Greater London, located at the corner of Nightingale Lane and Richmond Hill.The house, designed in 1775 by architect Robert Mylne for Lady St. Aubyn, was for many years the family home of actor Sir John Mills, [2] who sold it to Ronnie Wood of the rock band Faces (and later of the Rolling Stones) in 1971.
Downe House or Down House may refer to: Downe House School, a girls' boarding school in Berkshire, England; Down House, Charles Darwin's home in the village of Downe in the London Borough of Bromley; Downe House, Richmond Hill, previously home of Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall; Down House, a 2001 Russian comedy film
It was displayed at the 1819 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition at Somerset House, the largest work that Turner had yet presented. [2] It depicts a real event on Richmond Hill hosted by Lady Cardigan at Cardigan House on 12 August 1817 to celebrate the birthday of the Prince Regent. Petersham Meadows by the bend in the River Thames is in the ...
Richmond Hill in Richmond and Petersham, London, is a hill that begins gently in the north and north-east side of Richmond town and through its former fields, orchards and vineyard to a point just within Richmond Park, the deer park emparked and enclosed by Charles I.
Cardigan House on Richmond Hill, Surrey, now in London, was a country house constructed between 1791 and 1793 by the architect Robert Mylne for the wealthy publisher Robert Sayer. In 1794 it was rented by the Duke of Clarence, later to become William IV , who lived there until 1797 with his mistress the Irish actress Dorothea Jordan and their ...