Aragon House, Parsons Green, SW6 (5306977458)

public house A pub (short for public house) is a kind of drinking establishment which is licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. The term ''public house'' first appeared in the United Kingdom in late 17th century, and wa ...

at 249 New King's Road, Parsons Green, London. It was built in 1805–06, but the architect is not known. Aragon House gets its name from having been the site of a

dower house A dower house is usually a moderately large house available for use by the widow of the previous owner of an English, Scottish or Welsh estate. The widow, often known as the "dowager", usually moves into the dower house from the larger family ...

belonging to Queen Catherine of Aragon, the first of Henry VIII's six wives. Aragon House and Gosford Lodge were built on the site of a villa that the author

Samuel Richardson Samuel Richardson (baptised 19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761) was an English writer and printer known for three epistolary novels: ''Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded'' (1740), '' Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady'' (1748) and ''The History of ...

lived in from 1756 until his death in 1761.

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