Old Battersea House
Old Battersea House is one of the oldest buildings in Battersea, and is Grade II* listed.[1] It was built around 1699,[1] and was once rumoured to have been designed by Sir Christopher Wren.[2][3]
Building
The building was known until the 1930s as Terrace House.[4] It was built for the "naval administrator"[3] Samuel Pett,[5] probably completed in 1699.[4]
Battersea Council almost demolished the house in the 1920s and built St John's estate[6] (now Battersea Village) on the grounds of the house in the 1930s. In 1931 it passed into the possession of novelist Wilhelmina Stirling, who renamed it Old Battersea House.[3] Under her tenure the house served to house her collection of art by her sister, the Pre-Raphaelite painter Evelyn De Morgan, and her Evelyn's husband, the potter William De Morgan.[7][8] This collection is now kept by the De Morgan Foundation.
The building was listed on 28 June 1954[1] and became derelict after Stirling's death in 1965. It was acquired by Malcolm Forbes in 1970,[9] and housed some of his family's valuable art collection until 2011.[10]
References
- 1 2 3 "OLD BATTERSEA HOUSE - 1065500 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-10.
- ↑ "Old Battersea House".
- 1 2 3 https://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/research/survey-of-london/battersea/documents/50.01_Battersea_High_Street_Area.pdf p. 47
- 1 2 https://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/research/survey-of-london/battersea/documents/50.01_Battersea_High_Street_Area.pdf p. 40
- ↑ "Samuel Pett (c.1644 - c.1699) - Genealogy". web.archive.org. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
- ↑ https://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/research/survey-of-london/battersea/documents/50.01_Battersea_High_Street_Area.pdf p. 41
- ↑ "BFI Screenonline: Old Battersea House (1961)". screenonline.org.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-10.
- ↑ "Wilhelmina Stirling's Battersea art collections on display - BBC News". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-10.
- ↑ https://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/research/survey-of-london/battersea/documents/50.01_Battersea_High_Street_Area.pdf p. 56
- ↑ "Forbes family sells £5 million art hoard from their London home". 9 June 2009.
Coordinates: 51°28′26″N 0°10′35″W / 51.47396°N 0.17639°W