Mount Clare | |
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![]() Mount Clare in an engraving from 1779 by
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Listed Building – Grade I | |
Official name | Mount Clare, Minstead Gardens, SW15 |
Designated | 14 July 1955 |
Reference no. | 1184436 |
Mount Clare is a Grade I listed house built in 1772 in Minstead Gardens, Roehampton, in the London Borough of Wandsworth.
The architect was Sir Robert Taylor, [1] and the house was enlarged with a portico and other enrichments in 1780 by Placido Columbani. It was Grade I listed on 14 July 1955. [2]
The house was built for the politician George Clive [1] and the gardens were landscaped by Lancelot "Capability" Brown. [3]
Clive died in 1779. Subsequent residents have included:
The house was requisitioned by Wandsworth Borough Council in 1945. In 1963 it became a hall of residence for Garnett College, the UK's only dedicated lecturer-training college. Garnett College became part of Woolwich Polytechnic, then Thames Polytechnic, then the University of Greenwich.
Today, Mount Clare is owned by the Southlands Methodist Trust [5] and used as a hall of residence for the University of Roehampton. [3]
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