Syon House is the west London residence of the Duke of Northumberland. A Grade I listed building, it lies within the 200-acre Syon Park, in the London Borough of Hounslow.
Syon House in 2018
Syon House before the alterations of the 1760s
Idealised view of the house, All Saints’ Church, Isleworth and both banks of the River Thames at high water between 1700 and 1750 looking towards the south, before the construction of Richmond Bridge
The Thomas Harriot Plaque in the grounds of Syon House (W. London).
Northumberland House was a large Jacobean townhouse in London, so-called because it was, for most of its history, the London residence of the Percy family, who were the Earls and later Dukes of Northu
Syon House
…it lies within the 200-acre (80 hectare) Syon Park, in the London Borough of Hounslow. The family's traditional central London residence had been Northumberland House in Trafalgar Square, since demolished. The eclectic interior of Syon House was designed by the architect Robert Adam in the 1760s. Syon House derives…
Northumberland House by Canaletto, 1752. It shows the Strand front of Northumberland House. Note the Percy Lion atop the central facade. The Statue of Charles I at right survives in situ.
The Percy Lion (crest of Percy), after a model by Michelangelo, removed from Northumberland House in 1874, prior to demolition, by the 6th Duke and placed atop Syon House, his seat to the west of London.
The Front of Northumberland House, next the Strand, 1809
Northumberland House, shortly before it was demolished in 1874.