Asgill House
| Asgill House | |
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Middlesex | |
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| Type: | Town house |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ17367484 |
| Location: | 51°27’37"N, 0°18’44"W |
| Town: | Richmond |
| History | |
| Built 1757–58 | |
| For: | Sir Charles Asgill Bt by Sir Robert Taylor |
| Town house | |
| Palladian | |
| Information | |
Asgill House, formerly called Richmond Place, is a Grade I listed[1] 18th-century Palladian villa[2] on Old Palace Lane in Richmond, Surrey, overlooking the River Thames.
The house is on the former site of the river frontage and later the brewhouse for the mediæval and Tudor Richmond Palace. It was built in 1757–58 by Sir Robert Taylor as a summer and weekend parkland villa beside the Thames for Sir Charles Asgill, who was Lord Mayor of London in 1761–62.[2] It has been described as a "among the last villas of importance to be erected on the banks of the Thames".[3]
It was returned to its original appearance in a restoration of 1969–70 by Donald Insall Associates. This included removing the Victorian extensions.[2]
Asgill House is now leased from the Crown Estate as a private residence.[3]
The rear garden contains a renowned 200-year-old copper beech tree.
Pictures
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Richmond Railway Bridge and Asgill House -
Plaque commemorating royal residents of Richmond Palace -
1831 lithograph as The Villa of Mrs Palmer
References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1180412: Asgill House (Grade I listing)
- ↑ Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 2.2 Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Middlesex, 1951 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0140702033page 524
- ↑ Jump up to: 3.0 3.1 "Asgill House". Local History Notes. London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. https://www.richmond.gov.uk/media/6313/local_history_asgill_house.pdf.