Title

Apsley House, c1990-2010

Caption

Apsley House, London, c1990-2010. Detail of the North wall and fireplace in the Waterloo Gallery. Also known as Number One, London, Apspley is the London townhouse of the Dukes of Wellington. It stands alone at Hyde Park Corner. Construction began in 1771 by architect Robert Adam for Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington with extensive renovations by Benjamin Dean Wyatt. The house, a Grade I Listed building, is run by English Heritage.

Date

1990

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Reference

HRM19B34_361

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

58,3Mb (3,0Mb) / 13,4in x 16,9in / 4033 x 5055 (300dpi)

Keywords

building buildings Iron Duke Robert Adam Adam Benjamin Dean Wyatt Wyatt Grade I 2010s Lord Wellington Nigel Corrie Corrie Nigel Waterloo Gallery 1st Duke of Wellington London England people interior indoors red house arts country art British English color colour royal Neo-classical gold chair location gilt collection century gilded gallery Britain inside picture fireplace furniture royalty concept pictures georgian 21st century country house townhouse stately home Nineties reconstruction opulence Duke Neoclassical Neoclassicism 18th century 20th century Apsley House Eighteenth Century historic Neo-Classicism City of Westminster English Heritage town house 1990s 2000s decade Duke of Wellington Hyde Park Corner TGN photograph Listed Building English Heritage gold colour Robert Duke of Arthur Duke of Wellington Wellington Wellesley Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington The Iron Duke Duke of Wellington Robert Adam Benjamin Dean Wyatt photograph