Malplaquet House
Malplaquet House | |
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General information | |
Type | Townhouse |
Architectural style | Georgian |
Address | 137–139 Mile End Road, Stepney |
Town or city | London |
Country | England |
Coordinates | 51°31′18″N 0°2′55″W / 51.52167°N 0.04861°W |
Opened | 1742 |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Thomas Andrews |
Designations | Grade II listed |
Malplaquet House is a Grade II listed Georgian house at 137–139 Mile End Road, Stepney, London.
The four-storey house was built as one of three in 1742 by Thomas Andrews; only two of the houses survive to the present day.
Malplaquet House is named after the Battle of Malplaquet, one of the main battles of the War of the Spanish Succession, which took place in France in 1709. However, it is not known whether this naming came from the Jewish widow of the London merchant, who made his living selling war salvage, or from a later resident, the military surgeon Edward Lee.[4]
During the rest of the 19th century, the house played host to a variety of small businesses including a bookmaker and a printer, before being occupied in 1910 by the Union of Stepney Ratepayers.
Malplaquet House was badly degraded by the 1990s, and the intervention of the Spitalfields Trust helped save it from potential demolition.[3]
In 1998, Tim Knox (former director of
In 2010, it was described by The Daily Telegraph as "possibly the most superbly restored, privately owned Georgian house in the country".[5]
The house is part of a group of Grade II listed buildings on the Mile End Road, listed as 133–139 Mile End Road. It has been listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England since March 1978.[6]
References
- ^ a b "At Malplaquet House". Spitalfields Life. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
- ^ Stourton 2012, pp. 111
- ^ a b c d e f Stourton 2012, pp. 112
- ^ a b "Malplaquet House". The Devoted Classicist. 14 March 2013. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
- ^ "Living History: the country's most authentic Georgian homes". Daily Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group. Archived from the original on 2 December 2010. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
- ^ Historic England, "133–139 Mile End Road (1241670)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 28 October 2016
Bibliography
- ISBN 978-0-7112-3366-9.