2-714-775 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Holland House, Kensington', c1876. Holland House, originally known as Cope Castle, an early Jacobean country house built in 1605 by diplomat Sir Walter Cope to designs by Inigo Jones. A gathering-place for Whigs in the 19th century, damaged during the Blitz in 1940, 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]