Rosslyn House

Rosslyn House was a historic residence in what is now the Belsize Park area of London. Dating back to the sixteenth century and then known as Grove House, it was acquired in 1794 by the Scottish judge Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn, the Lord Chancellor. Around this time it had an estate of around twenty one acres.^[1] After his death, the property was named after the Earl by subsequent occupant Robert Milligan himself known for his role in the construction of the West India Docks.^[2]

Queen Victoria at one point considered it as a possible nursery for the Royal family.^[3] The previously rural area began to change in the mid-nineteenth century when nearby Belsize House and its grounds were developed to provide housing for the expanding capital. The Rosslyn House estate also began to be sold off in parcels for new streets.^[4]

In 1896 the house was demolished to be turned into housing. The street names of the redeveloped area commemorate Rosslyn and other Lord Chancellors of the late Georgian era, Eldon, Lyndhurst and Thurlow. Lyndhurst Road follows the route of the old Rosslyn Grove approach to Rosslyn House.^[5]

References

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Bibliography

Cherry, Bridget & Pevsner, Nikolaus. London 4: North. Yale University Press, 2002.
Wade, Christopher. The Streets of Belsize. Camden History Society, 1991.

[1] Wade p.71

[2] Wade p.71

[3] Wade p.71

[4] Wade p.71-72

[5] Wade p.72

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