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Orleans House the Octagon Room and Service Wing Adjoining

A Grade I Listed Building in Richmond upon Thames, London

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Coordinates

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

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

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Description


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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