22 Facts About Holland House

Holland House, originally known as Cope Castle, was an early Jacobean country house in Kensington, London, situated in a country estate that is Holland Park.

Holland House was joined the following day by his son Prince Charles and daughter Princess Elizabeth, and her fiance Frederick V, Elector Palatine.

Holland House had been a lifelong sufferer from asthma, which condition was exacerbated by the damp air at the riverside location of the Palace of Whitehall.

Holland House considered Holland House for the purpose, and stayed there for some weeks.

Holland House's survived him at his death in 1701, and in 1716 remarried to the celebrated writer Joseph Addison.

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Holland House died in 1721 aged 23, childless and unmarried, a decade before his mother.

On his death in 1725 Holland House passed to his son Edward Henry Edwardes, who in turn at his death in 1737 bequeathed the house to his brother William Edwardes, 1st Baron Kensington, subject to a long entail.

Holland House's died in 1845 and the estate passed to their son Henry Fox, 4th Baron Holland.

Holland House died in 1859 without issue, causing the title of Baron Holland to expire, and ownership of the estate passed to his wife, Lady Mary Augusta Coventry, a daughter of George Coventry, 8th Earl of Coventry.

In 1831 Henry John Boulton, who was born in Holland House, erected a baronial-like home in the city of Toronto.

Holland House immediately made plans to develop part of the land to the west of Holland House, which became Melbury Road, named after his Dorset seat.

Lady Holland, still living in Holland House, had objected and wrote that "all the building is a very bitter and sad pill to me".

Holland House was designated Grade I listed building status in 1949 under the auspices of the Town and Country Planning Act 1947; the Act sought to identify and preserve buildings of special historic importance, prompted by the damage caused by wartime bombing.

Holland House had a Great Chamber which became known as the "Gilt Chamber".

Holland House bought tapestry from the Mortlake Works for his new rooms.

In 1629, Holland commissioned Inigo Jones to design and the master mason Nicholas Stone to carve a pair of Portland stone piers, in order to support large wooden gates for the house.

In 1848, the 4th Baron Holland House moved them to the east side to be an entrance to the pleasure grounds, and on the south front created a terrace enclosed by a low balustrade.

House's dower house, known as Little Holland House, became the centre of a Victorian artistic salon presided over by the Prinseps and the painter George Frederic Watts.

In 1804 the garden of Holland House saw one of the earliest successful growths of the dahlia in England.

Whilst in Madrid, Lady Holland House was given either dahlia seeds or roots by botanist Antonio Jose Cavanilles.

Holland House's sent them back to England, to Lord Holland's librarian Mr Buonaiuti at Holland House, who successfully raised the plants.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Holland House had the largest private grounds of any house in London, including Buckingham Palace.