2-714-844 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Grand Staircase, Holland House', c1876. Jacobean country house in Kensington built in 1605 for Sir Walter Cope by architect John Thorpe, destroyed by German firebombing during the Blitz, the ruins are Grade I listed. From "Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. The Western and Northern Studies", by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York]