Chesterfield House was a grand London townhouse built between 1747 and 1752 by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, statesman and man of letters. The exterior was in the Palladian style, the int
Chesterfield House, November 1917
Chesterfield House in 1760, published in Walford's Old & New London (1878)
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, who built Chesterfield House
Staircase that originally came from Cannons, Edgware
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In British usage, the term townhouse originally referred to the opulent town or city residence of a member of the nobility or gentry, as opposed to their country seat, generally known as a country hou
Chesterfield House, Westminster
…Chesterfield House was a grand London townhouse built between 1747 and 1752 by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773), statesman and man of letters. The exterior was in the Palladian…
Spencer House in St James's, London, one of the last surviving true townhouses still owned by the noble family that built it, the Spencers, although it is now generally leased out commercially. The corresponding country house is Althorp in Northamptonshire.
Northumberland House by Canaletto, 1752. The Strand front of Northumberland House, the townhouse of the Dukes of Northumberland. Note the "Percy Lion" atop the central façade.
Devonshire House, Piccadilly, in 1896
Leicester House on Leicester Fields, 1748