Dollis Hill House

Dollis Hill House
The front of Dollis Hill House, surrounded by scaffolding (July 2007)
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General information
Town or cityDollis Hill, London
CountryEngland
Completed1825
DemolishedJanuary 2012
ClientFinch family
Technical details
Structural systemBrick

Dollis Hill House was an early 19th-century house also known as Dollis Hill Villa in today's north London suburb of Dollis Hill. Most of its gardens, south, form Gladstone Park and its owners were the freeholders of the farm estate, north, Dollis Hill Farm which together occupied the eminence, known as Dollis Hill, along with part of Willesden Paddocks in the parish of that name. Guests such as William Ewart Gladstone and Mark Twain were entertained there. The house became derelict after successive fire damage in 1995, 1996 and 2011, the last of which being the basement. As such the building was demolished in 2012 but a performance centre sits on its footprint. Dollis Hill House was an initial-class (Grade II) listed building and reached grade A on the English Heritage Buildings at Risk Register.[1]

  1. ^ "English Heritage Buildings at Risk Register". English Heritage. 2007. Retrieved 3 July 2007.