Hardwicke House, Ham Common
Hardwicke House is a Grade II listed house facing Ham Common in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.[1]
Description
[edit]It was built in the Queen Anne architectural style (1688), double-fronted with three storeys, bow windows on the ground floor with a verandah on the left and a projecting porch.[2]
History
[edit]Hardwick House (as it was originally named) was designed in 1688 by Thomas Tryon, merchant, author and early advocate of animal rights and vegetarianism, probably as a country residence as his main address was in Hackney.
John and Elizabeth Anne Brome are recorded here in the 1830s and 1841.[3]
About 1844 it was bought by John Lewis Cox, the first printer of The Builder in 1842 and master of the Worshipful Company of Stationers in 1848.[4][5] His family retired here and in 1851 they had a cook, lady's maid, housemaid and a groom.
From 1851 to 1868 the house was owned by Sir John Ralphe Milbanke, Bt., as an investment.[4] On the 1861 census the house was occupied by Elizabeth Busk, a foreign merchant.[6]
In 1913 Mary Elizabeth Sydney Pigott, only daughter of Sir Thomas Pigott, 2nd Bt., died here.[7] Alex Koch de Gooreynd settled in Hardwicke House in 1921.[8]
Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster was living here in 1939.[9]
Filming
[edit]It was used in Waitrose's Christmas advert in 2025.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ Historic England (25 June 1983). "Hardwicke House (1358074)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
- ^ "Hardwicke - TW10". Fresh Locations Limited. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
- ^ "Elizabeth Anne Brome". Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery, UCL Department of History. 2025. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
- ^ a b Church, Judith (2023). "The tenant of Hardwick House". Richmond History: Journal of the Richmond Local History Society. 43: 90–92.
- ^ Rivington, Charles (1882). "The records of the Worshipful Company of Stationers" (PDF). Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society. VI: 337 – via London and Middlesex Archaeological Society.
- ^ Pritchard, Evelyn (1991). A portrait of Ham in Early Victorian times 1840-1860. p. 36.
- ^ "Deaths". Clifton Society. 8 May 1913. p. 12.
- ^ "Back from Egypt". Daily Mirror. 15 April 1921. p. 5.
- ^ 1939 Register. Hardwicke House Ham Common, Richmond Upon Thames, Richmond M.B. RG101/1382E/004/12 1382E 4 12
- ^ "Richmond on screen: What's been filmed in Richmond upon Thames". London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. 15 January 2026. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
