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This is the Queen's House in Greenwich, part of the complex belonging to the National Maritime Museum (which is a member of Royal Museums Greenwich).

Colonnades connected on both sides of the Queen's House.

The back of Queen's House with one of the colonnades.

The Queen's House was commissioned by Inigo Jones between 1616 and 1635. It was the first fully classical building in Britain, and the only surviving one from the former Palace of Greenwich. It is now houses a collection of fine art.

Entrance is free.

Work began in 1616 for James I's queen, Anne of Denmark, but stopped in 1618 when it was only one storey high. She died in 1619.

Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I, resumed construction after 1629 and was still furnishing it when the Civil War broke out in 1642. The Queen lived in exile until 1662.

The whole complex is Grade I listed.

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1. 4412 ROMNEY ROAD SE10 (South Side)

National Maritime Museum TQ 3877 26/G53

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2. Central block of the Queen's House, connected by colonnades to side wings. The Queen's House. Inigo Jones, begun 1616, completed 1637. 2 storeys, 7 windows on north-west front. Fairly low pitched leaded roof has square chimney stacks with rebated angles. Stucco lst floor with stone dressings. Rusticated stone ground floor. Moulded architrave, frieze, dentil cornice and balustraded parapet with pilasters between bays. Sash windows with glazing bars. Moulded architraves wmth cornices to 1st floor windows. On north front double curved stair to balustraded terrace. On basement level, between wings of stair, a round arched entrance with moulded architrave and keystone. On south front a slightly projecting central section wmth open 5-bay gallery divided by Ionic columns on 1st floor. Balustrades to 1st floor windows matching that of gallery. Plain reveals with tiple keystones to ground floor windows. Segmental arched entrances under colonnades at East and West sides. Interior rather plain and solid. Original features remain, ie doors and doorcases, marble fireplaces and the Tulip Staircase so called because of tulip flowers in the wrought ironwork of the balustrade. Some enriched ceilings notably in the galleried hall (geometrical with very high raised borders) and the later east bridge room (geometrical with quatrefoil centre and very rich raised borders). East and west wings. By David Alexander 1807-16. Road fronts of Palladian proportions 2 storey, attic and basement. Moderately low pitched, slated roof. Stuccoed walls, stone dressings. Doric front of 6 attached columns, the outer ones square, supporting entablature and blocking course. Ovev 3 middle bays an attic storey with 4 pilasters rising to small cornice and blocking course breaking forward around them. Balustraded parapet at either side and for 1st portion of returns. Banded, rusticated ground floor with cornice. Projecting rusticated stone basement with plain plinth. Moulded reveals to low, replaced sashes with glazing bars on attic and 1st floors. Ground floor windows in moulded architraves, basement windows with large keystones, both sashes with glazing bars. On inner returns 3 projecting features, each with 4 Doric pilasters, support entablature and blocking course. Balustraded parapet at ends. Similar fenestration to fronts, except that basement windows at Romney Road end are round arched. Rusticated ground floor. Heavily rusticated basement, vermiculate basement to southern projections. Between projections 8 bays at back and 10 at front. West wing forms left wing of symmetrical arrangement of 3 Western blocks, the far west wing being similar. The centre block of this arrangement contains museum entrance. 2 storeys, attic and basement, 4 windows. Doric attached columns, resting on projecting rusticated basement, support entablature and balustraded parapet. Columns paired at angles and at either side of centre bay, which is further emphasised by pairs of projecting detached columns. Tall central entrance arch to above 1st floor level has mask on keystone and Royal arms in tympanum. Recessed panel above entablature has Naval arms under cornice and pediment.

Listing NGR: TQ3871177697