The Kingston House estate and Ennismore Gardens in

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is a green, dual-character area within the western limits of the

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in London. The first-named is immediately south of

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taking up the park's semi-panorama row of 8 to 13 Princes Gate (demolished) and otherwise, as to more of its wings, set around the east of Princes Gate Garden including a terrace of houses №s 1 to 7 Bolney Gate. The second-named is a garden square of 59 tall creamy-white terraced houses and the approach road to Prince of Wales Gate,

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as well as the identical-size public, square green of the church that is since 1956 the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God and All Saints facing which green are its anomalous outlier row for a London garden square, №s 61 to 66. The relatively small, broad-fronted house set against the Consulate-used pairing at №s 61 to 62 is № 60 and as with the other 65 numbers of Ennismore Gardens is a

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. Kingston House estate has some

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features but has no statutorily listed buildings. It has four 1930s to 1950s ranges of flats in 1930s style, arranged in three parts.

Kingston House estate

Kingston House, demolished

Kingston House, originally called Chudleigh House, was a

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mansion, built in the mid-eighteenth century by

Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, KG (171123 September 1773) was an English nobleman and landowner, a member of the House of Lords. He was the only son of William Pierrepont, Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull (1692–1713) and his ...

(1711–1773) for his mistress and later bigamous wife

Elizabeth Chudleigh Elizabeth Pierrepont (née Chudleigh), Duchess of Kingston (8 March 172126 August 1788), sometimes called Countess of Bristol, was an English courtier and courtesan, known by her contemporaries for her adventurous life style. She was the daugh ...

(1720–1788). On her death it passed to the Duke’s nephew

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, and had a series of tenants, among which Sir George Warren, MP; the 6th

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; and

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. In 1813 the house saw its only sale (for continued use as such). This was to William Hare, Baron Ennismore, later 1st

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. He died at the house in 1837 and was succeeded by his grandson

William Hare, 2nd Earl of Listowel William Hare, 2nd Earl of Listowel (22 September 1801 – 4 February 1856), known as Viscount Ennismore from 1827 to 1837, was an Anglo-Irish peer and Member of Parliament (MP). Life Listowel was the eldest son of Richard Hare, Viscount Ennismor ...

who seldom occupied it. He sold some grounds for house-building. The house was again let to tenants (which would include Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley, who died there in 1842, and Baron

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). It remained with the family until four years after the death in 1931 of the 4th Earl, when it passed to his younger son, created

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. In 1935 the house was sold for building of many more homes, and after the death of the Dowager Countess of Listowel in 1936, it was demolished in 1937 and replaced by two large blocks of private-ownership apartments, Kingston House North and Kingston House South.

First redevelopments

In the 1840s, development began with the construction of houses on Princes Gate and the east side of Ennismore Gardens, as well as a public house, the Ennismore Arms which was the first building of this scheme: built in 1845-7. It stood at the southern end of Ennismore Mews, which ran behind the houses on the eastern side of Princes Terrace. It suffered bomb damage during World War II and was rebuilt by Watney’s in the 1950s. It closed in 2002 then was demolished. All Saints' Church was built in 1848–9, designed in the

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. The church has murals by

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and is a Grade II*

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was vicar there 1904–1907. The Anglican church looked for another denomination to take it on in 1955, so late in the following year it became the Russian Orthodox Patriarchial Church of The Assumption of All Saints, part of the

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. The prized organ was taken by agreement, to be installed at the

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. In the 1860s the 3rd Earl released more land; the rest of Ennismore Gardens, including the private garden square at its centre, was laid out in the 1870s. The five-storey houses have porticos with Corinthian columns, and a continuous railing creating a first floor balcony. All 59 are listed buildings (in the starting, mainstream category, known as Grade II). Many lamps on the pavements of roads are likewise listed. Moncorvo House was completed in 1880 for Albert George Sandeman (future

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) and named in honour of his father-in-law, Portugal’s ambassador in London, the Visconde Da Torre de Moncorvo. In 1883, Bolney House was built to a design by the eminent architect

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for

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, son of Henry Huth.

Current form

Kingston House North replaces the demolished

townhouse A townhouse, townhome, town house, or town home, is a type of terraced housing. A modern townhouse is often one with a small footprint on multiple floors. In a different British usage, the term originally referred to any type of city residence ...

of Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull (1711–1773), yet is wider and has two long projections to the south; its eastern wing (Kingston House North) has a smaller projection to the south; it replaced a grand house fenced off from Kingston House. From the 1930s onwards, many of the original buildings, including Kingston House itself, were replaced by apartment blocks and modern townhouses. The Second World War brought further changes in use of the pre-war mansions. Moncorvo House became the post-war London HQ of the Canadian Joint Staff Establishment and the

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before being demolished in 1964 and replaced with Moncorvo Close. Bolney House was demolished in the 1960s, replaced with Bolney Gate a terrace, numbered 1 to 7, on one of the two offshoots of the road named Ennismore Gardens – that leading to Prince of Wales Gate. During World War II, the Norwegian government-in-exile took a main base at Kingston House North. After this war vacant parts of the grounds of long-demolished Kingston House saw Kingston House East (the E and SE wing of the North instance) and the two blocks of Kingston House South built, flanking 1 to 10 Morcorvo Close; the western block (№s 1 to 32) has short projecting wings; the eastern (№s 40 to 90, non consecutively) has none.'Princes Gate and Ennismore Gardens: The Kingston House Estate: The area since the 1920s', Survey of London: volume 45: Knightsbridge (2000), pp. 182–186. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45938

Ennismore Gardens

The independent Hampshire School occupied №63 from 1933–2008, when it moved to the former Chelsea Library. The iconic Hollywood actress

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lived at №34 from 1968 until her death in 1990, and is commemorated by an

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on the side wall of the property. She is also commemorated by an ornamental urn in the square. She could be often be spotted going for a swim in the nearby Imperial College pool with a towel rolled under her arm. The

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n consulate and visa office occupies №s 61–62; the main embassy is at 15

. Its smaller-footprint rear forms № 60, which with №s 63–65 directly to the east are listed in the same way and for the same reasons as the main square itself. From 2010 to 2019 there were 50 sales of conversion apartments among the townhouses of Ennismore Gardens, averaging £1,864,000.

Ennismore Garden Mews

Ennismore Garden Mews has been used to set film scenes.

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used № 31 as the home of

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's character, 'Brenda Blaney', in the 1972 film

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. The 1987 VW Golf TV advert directed by David Bailey featured

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leaving № 23.

Notable residents

Kingston House North

* General Sir Nick Houghton, Chief of the Defence Staff

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. *

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, exiled Prime Minister of

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* Stephen Lanigan O'Keeffe,

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n High Commissioner in London *

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, actor * Margaret Pedler, novelist * Nazim Azman, racer

Kingston House South

* № 9.

Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard Marshal of the Royal Air Force Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard, (3 February 1873 – 10 February 1956) was a British officer who was instrumental in establishing the Royal Air Force. He has been described as the "Father of the ...

* № 23

Margaret Pyke Margaret Amy Pyke (née Chubb; 1893–1966) was a British family planning activist and pioneer. A founding member of the British National Birth Control Committee (NBCC), later known as the Family Planning Association (FPA), she succeeded Lady ...

Moncorvo House (since demolished)

* Albert George Sandeman,

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* John Gretton, brewer and father of

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. * Arthur Graham Glasgow, American engineer and industrialist

Bolney House (since demolished)

* Henry Tate junior, son of

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the sugar magnate *

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* Sydney Martineau, Olympic fencer.

Ennismore Gardens

The first residents were aristocrats and statesmen's families; in the 20th century they were joined by artists and actors. * № 1 Sir Thomas Edwards-Moss, banker (1872–90) * № 2

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* № 3

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, Canadian politician (1872–5) * № 4 Etheldred, Dowager Countess of Hopetoun (1873–84); Viscount Tiverton (1918) * № 5 Albert George Sandeman, port-wine importer,

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director (1872–79);

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, soldier and politician * № 6

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, judge (1870–99); Charles James Jackson businessman and collector. * № 7 Richard Seaman, formula one Racing car driver and parent Wm J. Beattie-Seaman, 1930s * № 9 Sir John Brunner MP, industrialist * № 10 Samuel Whitbread MP, (1873–99) * № 11

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, merchant and ship-owner (1890–91;

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, statesman * № 13

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;

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, headmaster of

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* № 14

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, MP for

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(1876–90) * № 15 Lieut.-Col. Edward Henry Clive Grenadier Guards (1875–87) * № 16 Vaughan Hanning Vaughan-Lee, MP (1875–81) * № 18

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; Sir Granville Ryrie, High Commissioner for Australia (1927–1932) * № 19 Michael Biddulph, 1st Baron Biddulph, MP, banker, (1877–1915) * № 20

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, zoologist (1875–82);

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, chairman of the British Empire Producers' Organization; Brigadier-General Charles Woodroffe, military secretary to Edward VIII * № 21

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MP (1889–90);

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MP. * № 22 Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor (1878–91);

Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer Field Marshal Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, (13 March 1857 – 16 July 1932) was a senior British Army officer of the First World War. After commanding V Corps at the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915, he took command o ...

, British Army field marshal * № 23 the 10th Countess of Winchilsea and Nottingham (as Dowager (widow)) (1877–90) * № 27 Emile G. Levita, great-great grandfather of David Cameron (1873–1908) * № 28 Ralph Creyke, MP (1873–84) * № 29 Admiral Lord Hood; Sir Peter Bark,

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statesman;

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Ulster Unionist MP, whose son

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, 4th

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, was born there in 1914 * № 30 Sir Robert Hay, golfer (1873–84); Alfred Emmott, 1st Baron Emmott, politician and cotton-spinner; Charles Gray, actor. * № 32

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, proprietor of the Pall Mall Gazette, collector of illuminated manuscripts (1873–77) * № 34

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(1873–77);

;

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, actor. * № 35 Sir Walter Armstrong, art historian (1873–6); Sir Edward Durand, colonial administrator * № 37 Sir John Hardy Thursby, High Sheriff of

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* № 42 William James Thompson, tea broker * № 46 The Honourable Clarence Tan, socialite, landowner and current President of the New Zealand Society UK. * № 50 William George Campbell, lawyer and mental health commissionerBiographies of Legal Lunacy Commissioners and Secretaries 1832– 1912 http://studymore.org.uk/6biol.htm * № 61 John MacGregor PP (Glasgow) * № 68

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(1908–1922);

Moura Budberg Maria Ignatievna von Budberg-Bönninghausen (russian: Мария (Мура) Игнатьевна Закревская-Бенкендорф-Будберг, ''Maria (Moura) Ignatievna Zakrevskaya-Benckendorff-Budberg'', née Zakrevskaya; February ...

, literary hostess. * № 69

Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill Edith Clara Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill, (19 April 1901 – 4 February 1980) was a British physician, feminist, Labour politician and writer. She was appointed to the Privy Council in 1949. Early life Summerskill was educated at King's ...

, politician and writer.

Ennismore Gardens Mews

* Sir

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* № 35 Sir Alec Guinness

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Kingston House estate

Kingston House, demolished

First redevelopments

Current form

Ennismore Gardens

Ennismore Garden Mews

Notable residents

Kingston House North

Kingston House South

Moncorvo House (since demolished)

Bolney House (since demolished)

Ennismore Gardens

Ennismore Gardens Mews

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See also

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