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Swakeleys House, Ickenham, Hillingdon, London

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Brief description

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swakeleys_House

"Swakeleys House is a Grade I-listed [1] 17th-century mansion in Ickenham, London Borough of Hillingdon, England,[2] built in 1638 for the future Lord Mayor of London, Sir Edmund Wright. The house is a leading example of the architectural style known as "Artisan Mannerism", a development of Jacobean architecture led by a group of mostly London-based craftsmen. The many decorative quasi-classical gable ends are a distinguishing mark of the style.[3]

Originally the home of the lords of the manor of Swakeleys, the diarist Samuel Pepys visited the house twice. The property changed hands many times over the years and at one time was home to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office Sports Association. Large sections of the grounds were sold off in 1922 and developed as suburban housing.

Following a long period of decline, the house was purchased in the 1980s by a group of local residents and restored as part of its conversion to offices. It became a focal point for Ickenham during the biennial Ickenham Festival when the grounds were used to host the main gala day, until the house's new owners restricted access in 2014. Swakeleys is open in part once a year to the public as part of Open House London. Planning permission was granted in 2014 for the conversion of the house to form one large, residential property. The Bristol-Myers Squibb lease expired in 2009 and Swakeleys was sold to new owners who wished to reduce public access to one day a year, as part of Open House London.[27] This new proposal was accepted by the London Borough of Hillingdon in June 2010.[28]

In 2014, the new owner of Swakeleys, CES Properties (Ickenham), received planning permission from Hillingdon Council to convert the house back into a single large residence,[29] including 23 en-suite bedrooms, a party pavilion and a stable.[30] CES Properties placed restrictions on the staging of the Ickenham Festival that year, leading to the festival's organising committee relocating its planned gala day and evening events to the nearby Vyners School.[31] The festival had previously used the grounds of the house as a focal point for events.[32] CES Properties placed the house up for sale in February 2015 for £45 million.[30] "

Address

Swakeleys House

Ickenham

Uxbridge

UB10 8LD

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Website

https://www.swakeleys.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Swakeleys-Estate-Swakeleys-Estate.pdf

https://www.swakeleys.org/

https://programme.openhouse.org.uk/listings/1939

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Transport

2023: "TUBE: Ickenham, Hillingdon

TRAIN: West Ruislip

BUS: U1, U2, U10 "

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