Old Cromwell House, Mortlake
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Barnes and Mortlake – Cromwell House
1493 - John Williams, a brewer, acquires half an acre of land beside the Thames in Mortlake and builds on it a house subsequently known as Cromwell House
c. 1520 - Thomas Cromwell’s sister Katherine and her husband Morgan Williams move into the Mortlake house inherited from Morgan’s uncle John Williams
1857 - The old Cromwell House is demolished and a new one, designed by Robert Philip Pope, is completed by June 1858
1947 - Cromwell House, by now derelict, is demolished when the land is bought by the neighbouring Watney’s brewery
1992 - Parliament Mews is built on the site of Cromwell House, with the original high boundary walls still in place around the Mews
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