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 style, the interior Baroque. It stood in Mayfair on the north side of Curzon Street, between South Audley Street and what is now Chesterfield Street. It was demolished in 1937 and on its site now stands a block of flats of the same name.
Chesterfield House in 1760, published in Walford's Old & New London (1878)
Staircase that originally came from Cannons, Edgware
Dr. Johnson in the ante-room of Lord Chesterfield. Coloured engraving by E.M. Ward(d.1879) and C.W.Sharpe.
Interior of library of Chesterfield House 1893 by Philip Norman
Cannons (house)
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Cannons was a stately home in Little Stanmore, Middlesex, England. It was built by James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, between 1713 and 1724 at a cost of £200,000, replacing an earlier house on the site. Chandos' house was razed in 1747 and its contents dispersed.
James Gibb's design for the South Front (from Vitruvius Britannicus)
James Brydges (later 1st Duke of Chandos) and his family, 1713. Artist, Godfrey Kneller.
The Basin, Canons Park Estate, today. When the Duke of Chandos developed the estate in the early part of the 18th century, this ornamental pond was constructed along the approach drive from the south-east so that visitors caught their first sight of the Canons Park mansion once they had negotiated it.