Downshire House, Roehampton

Downshire House
Downshire House
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General information
Location	Roehampton, London, England
Coordinates	51°27′10″N0°14′39″W / 51.4529°N 0.2443°W
Completed	1770s
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official name	Downshire House
Designated	14 July 1955
Reference no.	1065522

Last updated January 03, 2026

Downshire House is a Grade II* listed ^[1] house in Roehampton, London. It was built in the 1770s and possible designed by Matthew Brettingham the Younger or his cousin Robert Furze Brettingham who worked on the house a couple of decades later.^[2]

Although there have been a number of additions and alterations, the house in its current state has been noted for its decorated central hall with marble flooring and Rococo plaster-work.^[3]

Background

The house is named for the Marquesses of Downshire for whom it was built and hosted General Cholmondeley as its first occupant. The gardens were laid out in large part by Stephen Herbert Gatty who owned the property between 1912 and 1920.^[4]

The southern wing of the house was demolished shortly after the Second World War and was later occupied by Garnett College beginning in 1963.^[2]

References

↑ "The Ancient House, Non Civil Parish - 1190795 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 2025-12-17.
1 2 Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher, eds. (1995). The London encyclopaedia (Rev. ed.). London: Macmillan. p. 303. ISBN 978-0-333-57688-5.
↑ Cherry, Bridget; Pevsner, Nikolaus, eds. (2002), London. 2: South / by Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner (1. publ. by Yale Univ. Press ed.), Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, p. 455, ISBN 978-0-300-09651-4
↑ Cherry, Bridget; Pevsner, Nikolaus, eds. (2002), London. 2: South / by Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner (1. publ. by Yale Univ. Press ed.), Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, p. 692, ISBN 978-0-300-09651-4

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[:0-1] "The Ancient House, Non Civil Parish - 1190795 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 2025-12-17.

[:1-2] 1 2 Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher, eds. (1995). The London encyclopaedia (Rev. ed.). London: Macmillan. p. 303. ISBN 978-0-333-57688-5.

[3] Cherry, Bridget; Pevsner, Nikolaus, eds. (2002), London. 2: South / by Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner (1. publ. by Yale Univ. Press ed.), Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, p. 455, ISBN 978-0-300-09651-4

[4] Cherry, Bridget; Pevsner, Nikolaus, eds. (2002), London. 2: South / by Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner (1. publ. by Yale Univ. Press ed.), Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, p. 692, ISBN 978-0-300-09651-4

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