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Latitude: 51.6265 / 51°37'35"N
Longitude: -0.3332 / 0°19'59"W
OS Eastings: 515473
OS Northings: 193279
OS Grid: TQ154932
Mapcode National: GBR 60.4PS
Mapcode Global: VHGQ9.5CQZ
Plus Code: 9C3XJMG8+HP
Entry Name: Central Entrance Block to Bentley Priory
Listing Date: 25 May 1983
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1358638
English Heritage Legacy ID: 202024
ID on this website: 101358638
Location: Harrow, London, HA7
County: London
District: Harrow
Electoral Ward/Division: Stanmore Park
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Harrow
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: All Saints Harrow Weald
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Historic house museum Military museum Building Georgian architecture
THE COMMON
1.
5016
Stanmore
Central entrance block to
Bentley Priory
TQ 19 SE 2/5
II*
2.
By Sir John Soane, 1789-90. Enlargement by Robert Smirke 1810-18. Entrance lobby,
long drawing room and circular boudoir are probably the only parts by Soane in
anything like their original condition. The external facades are quite changed by
iron balconies and other C19 additions. Some fragments of older work remain.
The house was, for the last year and a half of her life, the home of the
Dowager Queen Adelaide, who died here in 1849. It was also the home of the
Marquesses of Abercorn and Lord Aberdeen in C19. Gutted by fire 1979. Of
historical interest as the headquarters of Fighter Command during the
Battle of Britain and until 1968. (DRUETT, W W "Stanmore and Harrow Weald
Through the Ages" 1938 pages 130 to 137; IREMONGER, Lucille "Lord Aberdeen" 1978
pages 25 and 26).
Listing NGR: TQ1547393279
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