Fenton House
| Fenton House | |
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National Trust | |
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 Fenton House | |
| Grid reference: | TQ26178607 |
| Location: | 51°33’32"N, 0°10’47"W |
| Built 17th century | |
| Information | |
| Website: | Fenton House |
Fenton House is a 17th-century merchant's house in Hampstead in Middlesex which today belongs to the National Trust.
It is a detached house with a walled garden, which is large for a town house, even by Hampstead standards. It features roses, an orchard and a working kitchen garden. The interior houses the Benton Fletcher collection of early keyboard instruments, some of which are often played for visitors during operational hours, and collections of paintings (including the collection of Peter Barkworth, and loans of Sir William Nicholson paintings), porcelain, 17th-century needlework pictures and Georgian furniture. It also has fine portraits of Dorothea Jordan, King William IV, King George IV, Frederick FitzClarence and Adolphus Fitzclarence - Dorothea Jordan was the mistress of King William, and one of their daughters lived in the house.
The 17th-century brick mansion has a 300-year-old orchard, where around 30 types of apple trees flourish. Apple day, held in late September every year, gives members of the general public the opportunity to savor some of its rare and delicious apples, along with other goodies like apple-blossom honey.
The house was bequeathed to the National Trust in 1952 by Lady Binning, its last owner and resident.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Fenton House) |
- Fenton House information at the National Trust
- House: An Exquisite Collection