Type Merchant's house Designations Grade I listed Phone +44 20 7435 3471 Designation Listed building | Completed 17th century Opened 1686 Material Brick Architect William Eades | |
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Location Hampstead
London, NW3
United Kingdom Address Hampstead Grove, Hampstead, London NW3 6SP, UK Owner National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty Similar Burgh House, Keats House, 2 Willow Road, Holly Bush, Kenwood House Profiles | ||
Fenton house garden
Fenton House is a 17th-century merchant's house in Hampstead in North London which belongs to the National Trust, bequeathed to them in 1952 by Lady Binning, its last owner and resident. It is a detached house with a walled garden, which is large by London standards, and features roses, an orchard and a working kitchen garden. The interior houses the Benton Fletcher collection of early keyboard instruments, some of which are often played for visitors during operational hours, and collections of paintings (including the collection of Peter Barkworth, and loans of Sir William Nicholson paintings), porcelain, 17th-century needlework pictures and Georgian furniture. It also has fine portraits of Dorothea Jordan, William IV, George IV, Frederick FitzClarence and Adolphus Fitzclarence - one of Jordan's daughters by William IV lived in the house.
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The 17th-century brick mansion has a 300-year-old orchard, where around 30 types of apple trees flourish. Apple day, held in late September every year, gives members of the general public the opportunity to savor some of its rare and delicious apples, along with other goodies like apple-blossom honey.