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Aubrey House

1698 establishments in EnglandCountry houses in LondonDefunct hospitals in LondonDefunct schools in the Royal Borough of Kensington and ChelseaGrade II* listed buildings in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Grade II* listed houses in LondonHouses completed in 1698Houses completed in 1754Houses in Holland ParkUse British English from September 2019
Aubrey House Aubrey Walk Holland Park London W8 7JJ 3
Aubrey House Aubrey Walk Holland Park London W8 7JJ 3

Aubrey House is a large 18th-century detached house with two acres of gardens in the Campden Hill area of Holland Park in west London, W8. It is a private residence. Known for a long time as Notting Hill House, by the 1860s it had been named Aubrey House, after Aubrey de Vere who held the manor of Kensington at the time of the Domesday Book. The core of the house is thought to date to 1698; it was remodelled by Sir Edward Lloyd between 1745 and 1754. The house became a centre for radical thought and a haunt for political exiles in the 1860s under Clementia and Peter Alfred Taylor; Giuseppe Garibaldi stayed at the house in 1864 and meetings of the nascent British women's suffrage campaign were held at Aubrey House. The house served as a hospital during the First World War and later became the most expensive property ever sold in London upon its 1997 sale to the publisher and philanthropist Sigrid Rausing.

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Aubrey House
Aubrey Walk, London Notting Hill (Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea)

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