Downshire House
Downshire House is a Grade II* listed 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.Photo: David Anstiss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Building
- Description: house in London Borough of Wandsworth, Greater London, England, UK
- Also known as: “Downshire House, Roehampton”
- Address: Roehampton Lane, London, SW15 4HT
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Queen Mary’s Hospital and Roehampton House.
Queen Mary’s Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Noel Foster, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Queen Mary's Hospital, formerly Queen Mary's Convalescent Auxiliary Hospitals, is a community hospital in Roehampton in the London Borough of Wandsworth. It is run by St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Queen Mary’s Hospital is situated 970 feet northeast of Downshire House.
Roehampton House
Apartment building
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Roehampton House is a Grade I listed house at Roehampton Lane, Roehampton, London. What is now the central block of the current building was built between 1710 and 1712 by the architect Thomas Archer and named Roehampton House. Roehampton House is situated 570 feet northeast of Downshire House.
St Joseph Church, Roehampton
Church
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St Joseph's Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Roehampton in the London Borough of Wandsworth. It was founded by the Jesuits in 1869 and designed by Frederick Walters. It is situated on the corner of Roehampton Lane and Medfield Street. St Joseph Church, Roehampton is situated 1,600 feet southeast of Downshire House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Roehampton and Putney Vale.
Roehampton
Suburb
Photo: Stevekeiretsu, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Roehampton is an area in southwest London, sharing its SW15 postcode with neighbouring Putney and Kingston Vale, and takes up a far western strip, running north to south, in the London Borough of Wandsworth.
Putney Vale
Suburb
Photo: Hsq7278, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Putney Vale is a small community in south west London. It lies between Richmond Park and Wimbledon Common, to the east of Beverley Brook and Kingston Vale.
East Sheen
Suburb
Photo: Richard Howell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
East Sheen, also known as Sheen, is a suburb in south-west London in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Its long high street has shops, offices, restaurants, cafés, pubs and suburban supermarkets and is also the economic hub for Mortlake of which East Sheen was once a manor.
Downshire House
- Category: house
- Location: Wandsworth, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.4529° or 51° 27′ 10″ northLongitude
-0.24431° or 0° 14′ 40″ westOpen location code
9C3XFQ34+57OpenStreetMap ID
way 451250762OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesWikidata ID
Q17532018
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