Gunnersbury Park House - Large Mansion

Heritage listing

Details This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 15/07/2020 TQ 1979 15/106 POPES LANE Gunnersbury Park House Gunnersbury Park Museum (Formerly listed as Gunnersbury Park House - Large Mansion, GUNNERSBURY AVENUE) GV II* Country house, opened as a museum in 1929. 1801-28 by and for Alexander Copland; remodelled 1836 by Sydney Smirke for Nathan Mayer Rothschild, the City financier and Frankfurt-born founder of the British branch of this famous international Jewish banking dynasty. Stucco over brick; slate roofs; stuccoed brick stacks. Plan has service area to right of main body of house, centred around entrance hall and rear ante-room. Italianate style. Three storeys; symmetrical seven-window range of 2:3:2 fenestration with rusticated quoin to slightly-projecting outer bays, heavy moulded string course to second storey and moulded cornice to parapet. Paired Tuscan columns in antis to porte-cochere with Tuscan pilasters flanking panelled door and windows to each side. Eight-pane ground-floor sashes set in raised architraves with floating cornices; semi-circular arched eight-pane first-floor sashes have moulded architraves continued as moulded impost courses; six-pane square-headed second-floor sashes. Left-hand side elevation has mid C19 semi-circular bay window front and two-storey semi-circular bay to rear. Similar rear (garden) elevation has central three-storey, five-window range flanked by projecting two-storey, three-window range blocks with central second-floor string course continued as cornices beneath parapets of outer blocks: ground-floor French windows of central range are recessed behind screen of Tuscan columns and entablature; quoined outer blocks have two-light first-floor and ground-floor French windows set in slightly-projecting bays with ch

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.