Sloane Place, later The Pavilion, was a large house built by the architect Henry Holland in

Knightsbridge Knightsbridge is a residential and retail district in central London, south of Hyde Park. It is identified in the London Plan as one of two international retail centres in London, alongside the West End. Toponymy Knightsbridge is an ancien ...

, London, and located immediately to the south of

Hans Place Hans Place (usually pronounced ) is a garden square in the Knightsbridge district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, immediately south of Harrods in SW1. It is named after Sir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet, PRS (16 April 1660 ...

. In 1774, Holland leased 100 acres of what had been nursery gardens from Lord Cadogan, to redevelop as housing, including

, keeping 21 acres to build a property for himself. Sloane Place was built in 1780, and Holland had moved in by 1789. There were hothouses, a vinery, fruit trees, a Gothic ice-house on the west side of a lawn and a ruined castle/priory. Holland died there in 1806, after which it was sold on to

Peter Denys Peter Denys (1760 – 1816) was a British drawing master, later patron of the arts and landowner. He was the son of the language teacher Peter Denys (sometimes Denyss), who was himself the son of a Swiss emigrant. Denys was High Sheriff of Nor ...

, who renamed it The Pavilion, and died there in 1816. It was later subdivided, before being demolished in 1874. The site of the house is now occupied by Shafto Mews and is memorialised by Pavilion Road.

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