Whitehall, Cheam

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Whitehall in Cheam
Whitehall, Cheam
Location Cheam, London Borough of Sutton
Type Historic house museum
Public transit access National Rail logo.svg Cheam
Website Sutton Library Whitehall Historic House website
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The tea room
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Whitehall during Cheam Charter Fair in May

Whitehall is a timber-framed historic house museum in the centre of Cheam Village, Sutton, Greater London. It is thought to have been a wattle and daub yeoman farmer's house originally, built around 1500. [1] It is Grade II* listed on Historic England's National Heritage List. [2]

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Features

The house contains details from the Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian eras. The rooms include the hall, the parlour (thought to have once been the original kitchen), the lower kitchen, the porch room, the Roy Smith art gallery (once a wash room or scullery), the Harriet Killick dressing room and the bedroom. One room has a display about Nonsuch Palace, built nearby by Henry VIII and pulled down in the 1680s. In the garden there is a medieval well which served an earlier building on the site. [3]

History

It is said once to have been called "The Council House," owing to its use by Elizabeth I, for holding an impromptu council meeting for signing papers while on a hunting expedition from Nonsuch Palace. [4]

The oldest private school in the country, the Cheam School, was founded at Whitehall in Cheam in 1645. [5]

Ownership

It is believed that the house was the residence of the merchant, lawyer and philosopher, James Boevey (1622–1696), from c. 1670 to his death. [6]

Between 1741 and 1963 Whitehall was home of the Killick family, and in 1816 birthplace to Captain James Killick who became Captain of the tea clipper Challenger and founded the firm Killick Martin & Company. [7]

The house was bought by the borough in 1963 and following restoration, it was opened to the public as a historic building in 1978, and is run by the London Borough of Sutton and the Friends of Whitehall. [8]

The museum closed in 2016 for a £1.6m refurbishment of the building. It reopened in June 2018 with improved facilities. [9] Jill Whitehead, chair of the council's environment and neighbourhood committee, said: "The redevelopment of the Whitehall Museum is of major significance to the borough as it is one of our oldest and most historic buildings." [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Whitehall, Cheam, History & Visiting Information | Historic Surrey Guide". Britain Express. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
  2. ↑ Historic England, "Whitehall (1357580)", National Heritage List for England , retrieved 12 September 2017
  3. ↑ David Ross. "Whitehall, Cheam, History & Visiting Information". Britainexpress.com. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
  4. ↑ "The History of Whitehall". Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
  5. ↑ "A History of Cheam School". Cheam School. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  6. ↑ Crawley-Boevey, A. W. C., The Perverse Widow, Being Passages from the Life of Catharina, Wife of William Boevey, 1898. Biography of James Boevey, pp. 24–38
  7. ↑ MacGregor, David R. (1986). The China Bird: The History of Captain Killick, and the Firm He Founded, Killick Martin & Company. Conway Maritime Press Limited. ISBN   0-85177-381-8.
  8. ↑ "Friends of Whitehall Homepage" . Retrieved 7 May 2018.
  9. ↑ "Friends of Whitehall Homepage" . Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  10. ↑ Anders Anglesey (7 April 2016). "500-year-old Cheam museum to close for £1.6m renovation (From Sutton Guardian)". Suttonguardian.co.uk. Retrieved 25 October 2016.

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