• To secure a debt of £250,000, he managed to mortgage this marriage settlement trust, which owned Wanstead House and contents, to his creditors.
  • Two chimneypieces from Wanstead House are today installed at Chillingham Castle in Northumberland. A painting of Wanstead by The Rev.
  • A real-life tale of riches to rags in the most dramatic fashion. Catherine Tylney-Long had unexpectedly inherited the Wanstead House estate in 1805.
  • Wanstead House Wanstead House. Ordnance Survey maps show the site of a Roman Villa in present day Wanstead Park.
  • Wanstead House - Dawson. For more than a century, Wanstead House, Colen Campbell’s Palladian masterpiece, was one of the sights of Essex.
  • In about 1713, Sir Richard Child, heir to a mercantile fortune, commissioned Colen Campbell, to build Wanstead House, ‘one of the noblest houses...
  • Wanstead House by John Buckler (1770-1851) © William Salt Library/Bridgeman Images. I can well imagine contemporaries clamouring that Wanstead Must Go.
  • The title of Hannah Armstrong’s landmark book Wanstead House: East London’s Lost Palace, which is to be published next March, has sparked a bit of a debate.
  • Until creditors forced its destruction Wanstead House used to be, what was probably the most opulent house in England.
  • A very short history of Wanstead House and Park. There is some evidence of Roman activity on the land within the park, and Wanstead Manor itself dates back...