Hardwicke House, Ham Common
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Hardwicke House is a Grade II listed house facing Ham Common in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.[1]
It was built in the Queen Anne architectural style (1688), double-fronted with three storeys, bow windows on the ground floor with a verandah on the left and a projecting porch.[2]
History
Hardwick House (as it was originally named) was designed in 1688 by Thomas Tryon, merchant, author and early advocate of animal rights and vegetarianism, probably as a country residence as his main address was in Hackney.
John and Elizabeth Anne Brome are recorded here in the 1830s and 1841.[3]
About 1844 it was bought by John Lewis Cox, the first printer of The Builder in 1842 and master of the Worshipful Company of Stationers in 1848.[4][5] His family retired here and in 1851 they had a cook, lady's maid, housemaid and a groom.
From 1851 to 1868 the house was owned by Sir John Ralphe Milbanke, Bt., as an investment.[4] On the 1861 census the house was occupied by Elizabeth Busk, a foreign merchant.[6]
In 1913 Mary Elizabeth Sydney Pigott, only daughter of Sir Thomas Pigott, 2nd Bt., died here.[7] Alex Koch de Gooreynd settled in Hardwicke House in 1921.[8]
Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster was living here in 1939.[9]
