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Carlton House. Carlton House, sometimes Carlton Palace, was a mansion in Westminster, best known as the town residence of King George IV, particularly during the regency era and his time as prince regent. It faced the south side of Pall Mall, and its gardens abutted St James's Park [a] in the St James's district of London.
Carlton House. / 51.506333, -0.131833. La Carlton House fue una mansión londinense que sirvió de hogar para el príncipe regente durante unas décadas. Se encontraba entre Pall Mall y The Mall, en el distrito St. James de la capital británica, al oeste de Trafalgar Square. La casa se construyó a principios del siglo XVIII para Henry ...
Carlton House Terrace is a street in the St James's district of the City of Westminster in London. Its principal architectural feature is a pair of terraces, the Western and Eastern terraces, of white stucco -faced houses on the south side of the street, which overlook The Mall and St. James's Park. These terraces were built on Crown land ...
Carlton House derived its name from Henry Boyle, Baron Carleton, who owned the property in the early 18th century. 1 The house passed to the family of the 3rd Earl of Burlington, and was then sold to Frederick, Prince of Wales, George III’s father. After the death of Frederick’s widow, Princess Augusta, in 1772, the house stood vacant.
The history of Carlton House, the shortest-lived and yet the most tasteful and exquisite of London’s vanished royal residences, began in 1709 when the Royal Gardens, which were on the southern side of Pall Mall, were leased by the Crown to Henry Boyle, who was created Lord Carlton in 1714. As his town residence here he built Carlton House ...
He was succeeded at No. 3, Carlton Gardens, by Charles, third Baron Southampton. From 1851 to 1858 the house was occupied by James Archibald Stuart-Wortley, recorder of London, who held the office of solicitor-general under Lord Palmerston in 1856–57. Philip James Stanhope was a younger son of the fifth Earl of Stanhope.
In the First World War, No. 10 housed a Hospital for Wounded Officers, organised by Lady Ridley (Miss Buffard as matron). No. 11's occupants have been slightly more varied. First in was Lord Monson, then William Crockford, proprietor of the celebrated gambling hall. He was followed by the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, heir to the Duke of Norfolk.
