# Historic London house contents sale to benefit Eve Appeal

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/01/11/historic-london-house-contents-sale-benefit-eve-appeal/
- Published: 2007-01-11T13:10:10+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**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](http://www.eveappeal.org.uk), 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.

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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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