Thatched House Lodge
Coordinates: 51°25′39″N 0°17′7″W / 51.42750°N 0.28528°W
Thatched House Lodge is a royal residence in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in London, England.[1]
The main house has six reception rooms and six bedrooms, and it stands in four acres (16,000 m²) of grounds. The gardens include an 18th-century two-room thatched summer house which gave the main house its name. Since 1963 Thatched House Lodge has been the residence of Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy.[2] It was acquired by her late husband, Sir Angus Ogilvy, on a lease from Crown Estate Commissioners following their marriage.
History[edit]
The residence was originally built as two houses in 1673 for two Richmond Park Keepers, as Aldridge Lodge. It was enlarged, possibly by William Kent,[3] in 1727 as a home for Sir Robert Walpole.[3] The two houses were joined in 1771 by Sir John Soane and renamed Thatched House Lodge. It had also been known as Burkitt's Lodge.
The house was used by various members of the Royal Household, including General Sir Edward Bowater, and General Lynedoch Gardiner, respectively Equerry to the Prince Consort and to Queen Victoria. Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet retired to the house after he successfully operated on King Edward VII's appendix in 1902.
Later Thatched House Lodge became the home of Wing Commander Sir Louis Greig (equerry to King George VI, when he was Duke of York), and then the Duke of Sutherland. It was the London home of U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower during the Second World War.
References[edit]
- ^ "Thatched House Lodge". Wikimapia. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
- ^ "1964: Royal baby for leap year day". BBC News. February 29, 1964. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
- ^ a b Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner (1983). The Buildings of England – London 2: South. London: Penguin Books. p. 534. ISBN 0 14 0710 47 7.
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