Historic London house contents sale to benefit Eve Appeal
Howard Lake | 11 January 2007 | News
The contents of Chester House, one of the oldest houses in Wimbledon, South West London, will be sold without reserve at Bonhams in Knightsbridge, London, on 16 January 2007. Prices will range from £30 – £6,000, with 20% of the net proceeds being donated by the sellers to The Eve Appeal, a UK registered charity funding research into gynaecological cancers. The sellers have sold the house and are relocating.
Chester House is said to have been built by James, Duke of York (1633 – 1701; later James II) for one of his mistresses, one of whom, Anne Hyde, went on to be the mother of two future queens, Mary II and Anne. In the later 18th century it became the home of one of notorious John Horne Tooke, an outspoken politician renowned for escaping a near-certain death sentence for high treason at the Tower of London.
At the outbreak of war in 1939 Barclays Bank took over the house as their new head office. Following the war it became Barclays’ training centre until the early 1990s, when it was bought by its current inhabitants, and extensively refurbished.
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