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Kew Palace (The Dutch House) (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) 
KYOO
Kew Gardens, London, England
Circa Date: 1631 w/later alterations
Status: Fully Extant
KYOO
Kew Gardens, London, England
Circa Date: 1631 w/later alterations
Status: Fully Extant
Special Info / Location/ Date
Special Info
Phonetic Pronunciation of House Name
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Location
Country
England
District Today
London
Historic County
Surrey
City / Town / Village
Kew Gardens
Latitude
51.483889
Longitude
-0.29507
Date
Start Date
Completion Date
Circa Date
1631 w/later alterations
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Images From The V&A Images courtesy of and copyright by the Victoria & Albert Museum, London  Kew Palace, seen across the river; a boatman steadying his boat for three stout persons to enter it, two ladies already apparently occupy all the spare room; other pleasure boats are on the water, some with sails; Watercolour.  Four fragments (3 on one sheet) of wallpaper with different designs of floral motifs, patterns and decorative foliage; Colour prints from wood blocks, prints from engraved rollers, etc, on paper; One piece is lettered Sanitary (Wall-paper). |
Architects
Extant / Listed / References
Extant
Extant Type
Fully Extant
Extant Details
Listed
House Listed As
Grade I
Gardens Listed As
Not Listed
On SAVE Britain's Heritage's List of Buildings at Risk
No
Country House: Yes
References
Vitruvius Britannicus
Vitruvius Scoticus
J.B. Burke (Burke's Visitation of Seats)
Country Life
J.P. Neale (Neale's Views of Seats)
Access / Ownership / Seat
Access
Open to Public Please note: Houses listed as being open "By Appointment" are usually country house hotels or B&Bs.
Yes
Historic Houses Association Member
Phone Number If calling from the U.S., delete the first "0" in British numbers.
HOUSE: 02089-401-171. GARDENS: 02083-325-655
Fax Number
HOUSE: 02083-325-197. GARDENS: 02083-325-197
Email
Website
Awards
Current Ownership
Current Ownership Type
Other
Primary Current Ownership Use
Visitor Attraction
Current Ownership Use / Details
Kew Palace is owned and administered by Historic Royal Palaces. The gardens are owned and administered by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Seat ("Seat" is loosely defined
as any family that occupied the house for a period of 2 years or more)
Today Seat of
A Past Seat(s) of
Samuel Fortrey, 17th century. King George III, Queen Charlotte, 18th century.
Possible (Unsure) Seat of
History / Gardens & Park / Movies
History
Earlier House(s) / Building(s)
House Replaced By
Built / Designed For
Samuel Fortrey
House & Family History
Kew Palace was built in 1631 by Samuel Fortrey, a London merchant of Dutch ancestry, as a country house of red brick with curved Dutch gables. Fortrey was part of a very cosmopolitan and limited movement of the time that disdained the Tudor architecture style that was then popular, but also found the rising Palladian style too cold and severe. Kew Palace and other buildings like it (Swakeleys, Uxbridge, and Cromwell House, Highgate) blended the Renaissance with Inigo Jones and a little panache, and turned out with a strong flavor of the Low Countries. Kew Palace was first used by the Royal Family in 1728 and purchased by George III in 1781 as an annex to the White House. His wife, Queen Charlotte, died there in 1818, George IV was born there, and George III recuperated from his devastating bouts of porphyria (referred to at the time as bouts of insanity) at Kew. Kew is the smallest of England's royal palaces. The Spiral Staircase from the Palace is now installed in Cheekwood, built in the 1930s in the suburbs of Nashville, Tennessee and called "one of the last great manor houses built in the United States." Cheekwood today (2002) houses the Cheekwood Museum of Art. In 2003 Kew Palace received a £1.5 million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund toward the project to conserve and reopen the Palace to the public. On April 21, 2006 Queen Elizabeth II and the Royal Family celebrated the Queen's 80th birthday with a fireworks display above the Palace and then dinned in the King's Drawing Room. On April 27, 2006, the Palace reopened to the public following a decade-long £6.6 million conservation and representation project.
Collections
This field lists art objects that are currently or were previously in the collection of the house.
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Comments
Gardens & Park
Garden, Park, Follies and Outbuildings
The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew are listed as a World Heritage Site by the United Nations.
Chapel & Church
Movies
Location for Movies / TV
"Kew Palace Revealed" (2006 - BBC TV documentary on the Palace's restoration).
Bibliography
| Author | NA |
| Year Published | 2000 |
| Reference |
| Author | Rouse, Parke, Jr. |
| Year Published | 1985 |
| Reference | pgs. 40-42 |
| Author | NA |
| Year Published | NA |
| Reference | Jul 17, 2003, pg. 57 |
| Author | Girouard, Mark |
| Year Published | 1990 |
| Reference | pg. 321 |
| Author | NA |
| Year Published | NA |
| Reference | No. 83, Autumn 2004, pg. 8 |
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