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Latitude: 51.4473 / 51°26'50"N
Longitude: -0.3191 / 0°19'8"W
OS Eastings: 516906
OS Northings: 173379
OS Grid: TQ169733
Mapcode National: GBR 76.G7J
Mapcode Global: VHGR2.FW5B
Plus Code: 9C3XCMWJ+W9
Entry Name: Orleans House the Octagon Room and Service Wing Adjoining
Listing Date: 2 September 1952
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1250280
English Heritage Legacy ID: 432569
Also known as: Orleans House Gallery
ID on this website: 101250280
Location: Twickenham, Richmond upon Thames, London, TW1
County: London
District: Richmond upon Thames
Electoral Ward/Division: Twickenham Riverside
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Richmond upon Thames
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Mary the Virgin Twickenham
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Art museum Palladian architecture Independent museum
In the entry for
21/58 RIVERSIDE
Orleans House
The Octagon Room and
Service Wing adjoining
The grade shall be mended to read I
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1.
5028 RIVERSIDE
Orleans House
The Octagon Room and
service wing adjoining
TQ 1673 21/58 2.9.52
II
2.
All that survives of Orleans House is the Octagon Room (with its adjoining service
wing); the rest having been demolished in 1927.
Orleans House was built in 1710 for James Johnston, Queen Anne's Secretary of State
for Scotland. Louis Philippe lived here 1800-14 and 1815-17.
In 1720 Johnston employed James Gibbs to add the Octagon for the entertainment of
Queen Caroline (George II's wide). Red brick with stone dressings and rubbed brick
pilasters at the angles. Large round-arched windows with blocked surrounds and round
windows above.
Fine Roman baroque interior with plaster figures on pediments of fireplace and doors
and busts in round niches above by G Artan and J Bagutti.
Illustrated in Gibb's 'Book of Architecture', plate 71.
Service wing is a long 2-storey brick range adjoining the Octagon to the west. Door
with pediment and rusticated surround. Also to the north a re-built 2-storey wing.
Listing NGR: TQ1687473348
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