Apartment within 'Arcadian' historical house in Hampton Court on sale for 1.2m

The main flat successful actor, playwright, theatre manager and shaper David Garrick’s erstwhile location successful Hampton is present connected the market.

Several theatres person been named aft Garrick, including the celebrated Garrick Theatre successful the West End.

The gathering features exteriors re-designed by renowned neoclassical designer Robert Adam, portion Capability Brown advised connected the layout of the gardens and designed the orangery.

The plot besides features a Mulberry histrion thought to person been grown by Garrick from a cutting originating from William Shakespeare’s Garden successful Stratford upon Avon.

On the marketplace for £1,195m, the flat occupies a important portion of the archetypal level and boast immoderate magnificent rooms including The Great Room, which measures immoderate 38ft successful magnitude with soaring ceilings and good play details. The room has the quirky consciousness of a parlour room with a dresser astatine its heart. The main chamber is ample capable for a four-poster bed.

The 2nd reception oregon chamber has immoderate incredibly important and good play item including immoderate Intaglio casts reputedly done by the precise manus of Robert Adam successful Italy and shipped specifically to beryllium installed successful the Villa. From this country is simply a backstage terrace with views to the stream situated nether the archetypal portico.

Meanwhile, extracurricular the extended communal gardens are a delight and see a mulberry histrion planted by Garrick who is said to person taken a cutting from the Mulberry histrion successful William Shakespeare’s Garden successful Stratford upon Avon.

The past of Garrick’s Villa is simply a fascinating one. In 1754 David Garrick became bought the property, making it his state retreat and a spot of recreation wherever helium and his woman often entertained their friends.

He embarked connected extended alterations wrong the location and, employed Robert Adam to re-design the facade successful the classical benignant past successful vogue. The helping connected the left, though akin successful appearance, dates from 1865. In the location arsenic it appears successful prints of the precocious 1770s the precocious portico – of 4 columns rising implicit an arched podium – was positioned centrally successful the facade. The columns with their Corinthian capitals are each of wood and immoderate of the widows are false, to execute symmetry.

Capability Brown advised connected the layout of the gardens. Even past the road from Kingston to Staines separated the location from its riverside land. It was soon to go a Turnpike. A passageway enabled the Garricks to scope their riverside plot privately, without having to transverse the road.

Of each the additions, the Temple, with its statue of Shakespeare was the crowning glory.

Horace Walpole wrote successful 1755 “Garrick is gathering a grateful temple to Shakespeare”. The designer is chartless but perchance Adam, Capability Brown and Roubiliac each gave advice. It resembles a operation successful the grounds of Chiswick House, wherever the Garricks spent their honeymoon and brings to caput that Garrick’s wife, Eva, was a protégé of the Burlingtons who owned that estate.

A further summation to Garrick’s “arcadian” scenery was an orangery astatine the acold extremity of the main garden. Adam besides designed an Orangery successful the main plot with Corinthian facade and classical entablature. This was aboriginal changed to Greek Doric aft Mrs Garrick’s decease and an precocious level was added successful 1922. Extended connected either broadside successful the aboriginal 1970s to marque 4 self-contained apartments, this aboriginal operation is disposable from the road.

Garrick owned a bully woody of farmland which is present portion of Bushy Park and bought different houses successful Hampton including Orme House successful Church Street, the Six Bells (until precocious the White Hart), Garrick’s Ait, 3 different tiny aits and, conscionable earlier his death. The Cedars, present known arsenic Garrick House, connected the riverside.

After helium died successful 1779, Eva continued to unrecorded successful the villa until her decease astatine the property of 98 successful 1822.

With the coming of the trams, the roadworthy was widened and the location bought by the London United Tramway Company successful 1902, for demolition. Fortunately the General Manager, Clifton Robinson, took a fancy to it and decided to unrecorded there. To facilitate the widening of the roadworthy the farmland was exchanged with the crown for a portion of onshore formerly portion of Bushy Park. The plot walls were acceptable backmost immoderate 20 feet and the underground transition extended.

Clifton Robinson had tramway tracks made into his entranceway astatine the westbound extremity of the tract truthful that helium could question from doorway to doorway to his bureau successful Chiswick. He besides treated his unit and their families to yearly plot parties astatine the Villa and was photographed successful the plot with a ample hound reminiscent of the 1 successful the Zoffany representation of Garrick and his woman connected the Temple steps.

The archetypal tram ran to Hampton Court successful April 1903 and was replaced by the trolley autobus successful 1935.

Sir Clifton and Lady Robinson near Garrick’s Villa successful 1910. At this constituent Sir Charles Wyndham wanted to spot it go a Garrick Museum. The Hampton Urban District Council tried to rise the wealth to bargain it but failed – astatine the sale, the bidding did not scope the reserve terms of £9,600. It was commandeered by the service successful World War I and subsequently Flora Hutchinson, who had acquired the house, fto it connected a repairing lease to Mr James Wooller who neglected to behaviour immoderate repairs.

In March 1922 Mrs Hutchinson divided the location into 7 flats and successful 1923 sold the Temple and astir of the riverside lawn, on with the room plot and stabling. During World War II the location again became regarded arsenic a state retreat, though successful a antithetic sense. Hoping to debar the blitz, Sir Desmond MacCarthy, Literary Editor of the Sunday Times, moved to Hampton from cardinal London and lived successful a ample level connected the archetypal floor.

Post-war conditions made it hard for a azygous proprietor to support the estate. Throughout the precocious 1940s, the 50s and the 60s Dr Laura McConnell, who was present the owner, sought readying permission, unsuccessfully, for houses to beryllium built successful the grounds. Finally, successful 1966, a program preserving the wide expanse of the tract betwixt the Villa and the Orangery was approved and, nether the watchful oculus of the Hampton Residents’ Association, the improvement went ahead.

Lindsay Cuthill, co-founder of Blue Book Agency comments, “This exquisite flat successful Garrick's Villa is simply a surviving portion of history, blending architectural brilliance with literate heritage. Once the location of David Garrick, the celebrated histrion and playwright, this unsocial residence carries the essence of 18th-century creativity and grandeur. Garrick enlisted the iconic Robert Adam to redesign its façade, portion Capability Brown, the eminent scenery architect, shaped the verdant gardens. One item is the magnificent mulberry tree, believed to originate from Shakespeare's ain plot - a botanical tribute to literate greatness.

“Stepping inside, the flat unfolds into rooms of breathtaking elegance. The Great Room, existent to its name, stretches an awesome 38 feet, featuring lofty ceilings and intricate play details. The parlour-style kitchen, with its charming dresser, adds an intimate yet whimsical touch. The main chamber invites luxury, portion the 2nd reception country captivates with its delicate intaglio casts, perchance crafted by Adam himself. From here, a backstage terrace offers serene views of the Thames, framed by the villa's archetypal portico.

“The communal gardens are a sanctuary, with their Capability Brown layout and Shakespearean mulberry tree. Truly, this location is simply a masterpiece—an ode to art, history, and timeless elegance.”