Macartney House

Macartney House
Interactive map of Macartney House
General information
Type	Residential
Location	Greenwich, London England
Coordinates	51°28′30″N0°00′12″W / 51.4749°N 0.0032°W / 51.4749; -0.0032
Completed	1694
Listed Building – Grade II
Official name	Macartney House
Designated	19 October 1951
Reference no.	1079069

Macartney House is a Grade II listed house in Chesterfield Walk, Greenwich, London. ^[1]

The house was built around 1694 although has since had a number of extra additions and extensions. Among them are some added by Sir John Soane who also remodelled the interior in 1802 under the ownership of George Lyttelton. The north wing was added around 1855 and a few further extensions were added in the following decades. The building was split into flats in 1925. ^[2]

There is a blue plaque commemorating General James Wolfe, who died leading the British to victory at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. He was taken to lie in state here after his death. ^[3] A statue of him was given by the people of Canada and stands nearby in Greenwich Park.

References

1. "Macartney House, Non Civil Parish - 1079069 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 2026-01-03.
2. 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. 268, ISBN   978-0-300-09651-4
3. Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher, eds. (1995). The London encyclopaedia (Rev. ed.). London: Macmillan. p. 335. ISBN   978-0-333-57688-5.