Old Cromwell House, Mortlake

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Barnes and Mortlake – Cromwell House



1493 - John Williams, a brewer, acquires half an acre of land beside the Thames in Mortlake and builds on it a house subsequently known as Cromwell House

c. 1520 - Thomas Cromwell’s sister Katherine and her husband Morgan Williams move into the Mortlake house inherited from Morgan’s uncle John Williams

1857 - The old Cromwell House is demolished and a new one, designed by Robert Philip Pope, is completed by June 1858

1947 - Cromwell House, by now derelict, is demolished when the land is bought by the neighbouring Watney’s brewery

1992 - Parliament Mews is built on the site of Cromwell House, with the original high boundary walls still in place around the Mews


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