Boston Manor House - Boston Manor Road, Brentford, UK
N 51° 29.517 W 000° 19.094
30U E 686166 N 5707944
Boston Manor House is a Jacobean house built in 1623 for Lady Mary Reade. The house is currently closed to the public (July, 2019) but is expected to re-open in 2021 after renovation work is complete. The grounds surrounding the house are still open.
Waymark Code: WM10XCW
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 07/06/2019
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The Visit London website includes Boston Manor House and tells us:
Boston Manor House is a fine Jacobean manor house built in 1623. The house has three state rooms including the State Drawing Room with its fine plaster ceiling and mantelpiece. One of the earliest examples of English Renaissance style, the exterior of the house is particularly fine. The ground floor rooms are also open when not in use for functions, and they house a selection of paintings of the locality. These rooms are 19th century in style and recently restored.
The building is Grade I listed with the entry at the Historic England website advising:
Dated 1622-3. C18 North wing. Three-storeys and attics. Red brick. Six windows in stone architraves. Stone cornice between 2nd and 3rd storeys. Stone porch with balustrade like that at Lilford Hall. Northants (1635). Interior has splendid early C17 ceilings, fine C18 wallpaper on upper staircase. Fine carved main staircase.
Drawing room ceiling divided by moulded ribs into oblong and square panels, broken into semi-circular and segmental cuspings, connected by short corss- ribs. Within some of the panels are strap-work cartouches containing emblamatic figures; including the 4 elements designed by the C17 Dutch artist Mare Gheercerts, and engraved by Galle. The house was damaged in the war and was extensively restored prior to its reopening in 1963. Is now occupied by National Institute for Housecraft Limited.