Walpole House, a Grade I listed building on Chiswick Mall
The Grade I[1] listed building Walpole House is the largest, finest,[2] and most complicated of the grand houses on Chiswick Mall, a waterfront street in the oldest part of Chiswick. Both the front wrought-iron screen and gate, and the back boundary wall, are Grade II listed.
The house was started in the Tudor era, with internal features surviving from the 16th and 17th centuries; the river frontage was built around 1730. The 0.5 hectares (1.2 acres) garden is listed in the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens.
Among Walpole House's famous inhabitants have been: Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, mistress of King Charles II; Thomas Walpole; Daniel O'Connell; William Makepeace Thackeray; and Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree.
The Grade I listed building WalpoleHouse is the largest, finest, and most complicated of the grand houses on Chiswick Mall, a waterfront street in the...
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side of the street beside the river. The largest and finest house on the street is WalpoleHouse, a Grade I listed building; part of it is Tudor, but the...
family since the 18th century, it is now the seat of Robert Walpole, 10th Baron Walpole. The house is only open to the public by appointment. The Gardens however...
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